The corpus record — Latin

tector

tector · m

one that overlays walls with plaster

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

Where it lives

Tacitus 1 · 3.24/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 3 · 1.98/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 5 3 · 1.87/10k
De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
De Architectura 5 · 0.87/10k
Pro Cn. Plancio 1 · 0.86/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 24 1 · 0.71/10k
Pro P. Sestio 1 · 0.6/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 1 · 0.57/10k
De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.46/10k

Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

tector — Lewis & Short

tector, ōris, m.tego,

I one that overlays walls with plaster, stucco, etc., a plasterer, pargeter: villa tua, quam neque pictor neque tector vidit umquam, Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 9; Cic. Planc. 25, 62; Front. Aquaed. 117; Vitr. 7, 3 fin.; Tert. Idol. 8; Inscr. Orell. 4288; 4803.

In the wild

tectorum Cicero, De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 146
tectorum Cicero, Philippicae 2.69
tectorum Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.5.24.6
tectorum Cicero, Pro P. Sestio 144
tectore Cicero, Pro Cn. Plancio 62
tectorum Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 14.10

6 of 50 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.