The corpus record — Latin

salutator

salutator · m

one who greets; a greeter

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

Where it lives

Commentariolum Petitionis 3 · 6.91/10k
Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
Epigrammata 6 · 1.07/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 1 · 0.47/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2 · 0.17/10k
Controversiae 1 · 0.15/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

sălūtātor — Lewis & Short

sălūtātor, ōris, m.id.,

I one who greets; a greeter, saluter.

I In gen.: salutator regum, Stat. S. 2, 4, 29.—

II In partic. (cf. salutatio, II.), one who makes complimentary visits, who pays his respects to another, a visitor; also (in the time of the emperors), one who appears at court, a courtier, Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 9, 34; Col. praef. § 9; Mart. 1, 71, 18; 10, 74, 2; Suet. Claud. 35; Juv. 5, 15.

In the wild

salutator Martial, Epigrammata 14.74.1
salutator Martial, Epigrammata 3.58.33
salutator Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2.19.4.p2
salutatorem Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae 2.7
salutatorum Quintus Cicero, Commentariolum Petitionis p17
salutator Statius, Silvae 2.4.29

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.

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

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.