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The corpus record — Latin

tentātor

tentātor · m

An assailant

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What it meant

tentātor — Lewis & Short

tentātor, ōris, m.tento.

I An assailant, attempter, tempter: integrae Dianae (Orion), Hor. C. 3, 4, 71.—Esp., the tempter, i. e. the devil, Vulg. Matt. 4, 3; Juvenc. 1, 384.—
II He who attacks: autumnus, tentator valetudinum, Tert. Anim. 48 init.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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