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The corpus record — Latin

sacrificulus

sacrificulus · m

one who conducts the sacrifices

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

  • Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
  • Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 2 · 1.36/10k
  • Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
  • Ab urbe condita 3 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

să_crĭfĭcŭlus — Lewis & Short

să_crĭfĭcŭlus, i, m.sacrifico,

I one who conducts the sacrifices, a sacrificer, sacrificing priest: sacrificuli ac vates ceperant hominum mentes, Liv. 25, 1; Suet. Dom. 1 (for which, sacricolae, Tac. H. 3, 74).—In apposition: rex, a high-priest, Liv. 2, 2, 1; cf. id. 6, 41, 9; v. rex, I.: vates, id. 35, 48 fin.

In the wild

6 of 7 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.