The corpus record — Latin

signator

signator · m

A sealer

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Where it lives

Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Catilina 1 · 0.94/10k
Saturae 2 · 0.8/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Institutio Oratoria 9 · 0.52/10k
De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

signātor — Lewis & Short

signātor, ōris, m.id..

I A sealer, signer.

A One who attests a will by sealing it, a witness to a will (mostly postAug.; not in Cic.): ex illis testes signatoresque falsos commodare, Sall. C. 16, 2: signator falso, a forger, Juv. 1, 67; Suet. Aug. 33; id. Tib. 23; Val. Max. 7, 7, 2; Dig. 18, 3, 8; Vulg. 2, Esd. 10, 1.—

B One who affixes his seal as witness to a marriage-contract, a witness to a marriage, Juv. 10, 336. —

II One who stamps money, a coiner, Inscr. Grut. 1066, 5; 1070, 1; Inscr. Orell. 3229.

Where it came from

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