The corpus record — Latin

saltator

saltator · m

a dancer

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Where it lives

Pro Rege Deiotaro 1 · 2.56/10k
Cum Senatui Gratias Egit 1 · 2.31/10k
Pro L. Murena 2 · 1.9/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 1 · 0.92/10k
Pro Cn. Plancio 1 · 0.86/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 1 · 0.66/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1 · 0.2/10k
Philippicae 1 · 0.19/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

saltātor — Lewis & Short

saltātor, ōris, m.salto,

I a dancer (generally among the Romans with an accessory contemptuous signif.), Cic. Off. 1, 42, 150; id. Mur. 6, 13; id. Deiot. 10, 28; id. Fin. 3, 7, 24; Quint. 1, 12, 14; 11, 3, 89; Suet. Calig. 54; id. Ner. 6; Macr. S. 2, 10 al.

In the wild

saltatores Cicero, Philippicae 5.15
saltatore Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.3.89
saltatoribus Cicero, In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 89
saltatores Cicero, De Officiis 1.150.p1
saltatorem Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.12.14
saltatori Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 3.24

6 of 17 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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