The corpus record — Latin

scortor

to employ

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Where it lives

Mercator 1 · 1.17/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

scortor — Lewis & Short

scortor, āri (old

I inf. scortarier, Plaut. Merc. 5, 4, 58), v. dep. n. [id.], to employ or associate with harlots (ante- and post-class.): scortari est saepius meretriculam ducere, Varr. L. L. 7, § 84 Müll.; Plaut. As. 2, 2, 4; id. Merc. 5, 4, 25; 5, 4, 58; id. Ps. 4, 7, 35; Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 32; id. Ad. 1, 2, 22; Vulg. 2 Macc. 6, 4.

In the wild

scortarier Plautus, Mercator 5.4
scortatu Apuleius, Metamorphoses 5.28

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. scortor (scan p. 628; entry #10361). Root candidates: *sker-.

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