The corpus record — Latin

tabellarius

tabellarius · adj

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Where it lives

Hannibal 2 · 9.78/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 4 · 6.61/10k
Letters to Atticus 55 · 4.47/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 8 · 4.36/10k
Letters to and from Brutus 3 · 3.15/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 3 · 2.37/10k
De Provinciis Consularibus In Senatu 1 · 1.95/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 21 · 1.8/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklürt von M. Weissenborn, book 45 2 · 1.52/10k
Letters 7 · 1.08/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 1 · 0.96/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 44 1 · 0.79/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — Lewis & Short

tăbellārĭus, a, um, adj.tabella,

I of or belonging to tablets, i. e.,

I (Acc. to tabella, II.A.) Of or pertaining to writing or to letters.

A Adj.: naves, vessels to carry letters, packet-boats, Sen. Ep. 77, 1. — Hence,

B Subst.: tăbellārĭus, ii, m., a lettercarrier, courier: epistulam, quam attulerat Phileros tabellarius, Cic. Fam. 9, 15, 1; 10, 31, 4; 15, 18, 2; id. Phil. 2, 31, 77; id. Prov. Cons. 7, 15; Cass. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 12, 1; Liv. 45, 1, 6 al.—

II (Acc. to tabella, II. B.) Of or relating to voting-tablets: lex, regulating voting: sunt enim quattuor leges tabellariae, quarum prima de magistratibus mandandis, ea est tabellaria Gabinia, etc., Cic. Leg. 3, 16, 35; id. Sest. 48, 103; Plin. Ep. 3, 20, 1.

In the wild

tabellarius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 15.18.2
tabellarius Pliny the Younger, Letters 10.63.1
tabellarius Cicero, Letters to Atticus 15.4.1
tabellarius Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 8.9.p1
tabellarii Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus 3.1.17
tabellarium Cicero, Letters to Atticus 12.48.1

6 of 121 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.