The corpus record — Latin

tabernarius

tabernarius · adj

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Where it lives

Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 1 · 0.66/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

tăbernārĭus — Lewis & Short

tăbernārĭus, a, um, adj.id.,

I of or belonging to booths or shops, used to denote any thing low, common: blanditiae, App. Mag. p. 229, 3: fabulae, a low kind of comedy, Diom. p. 487 P.; Fest. s. v. togatarum, p. 352 Müll. —

II Hence, subst.

1 tă-bernārĭi, ōrum, m., shopkeepers, small dealers, Inscr. Orell. 1368: opifices et tabernarios atque illam omnem faecem civitatum quid est negotii concitare? Cic. Fl. 8, 18: concitator tabernariorum, id. Dom. 5, 13; (with aquarii) Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6, 4. —

2 tăbernārĭa, ae, the hostess of a tavern, Novell. Martian, § 4; cf. Schol. Juv. 8, 162; Isid. 15, 2, 43.

In the wild

tabernariorum Cicero, De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 13
tabernarium Historia Augusta, Antoninus Heliogabalus 30
tabernariis Apuleius, Florida 7
tabernariis Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 8.6.4
tabernariis Apuleius, Apologia 87.p2

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.