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tonsor

tonsor · m

A shearer, clipper

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Where it lives

De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 2 · 3.24/10k
Epistulae 3 · 3.03/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
Epigrammata 15 · 2.67/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Satyricon 5 · 1.64/10k
Aulularia 1 · 1.45/10k
Satyrarum libri 2 · 1.41/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k

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

What it meant

tonsor — Lewis & Short

tonsor (TOSOR, ōris, m.id..

Inscr. Fabr. p. 214, n. 546),

I A shearer, clipper, shaver of the hair, beard, nails, etc., a hair-cutter, barber, Varr. R. R. 2, 11, 10; Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 58; Plin. 7, 59, 59, § 211; Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 92; 1, 1, 94; 1, 7, 50; id. A. P. 301; Mart. 6, 57, 3; 11, 84, 2; Suet. Aug. 79; Inscr. Orell. 2883; a shearer of sheep: ovium, Vulg. Gen. 38, 12; cf. Becker, Gallus, 3, p. 136 (2d edit.).—Of a nail-cutter: tonsor ungues dempserat, Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 33. — Prov.: omnibus et lippis notum et tonsoribus esse, i. e. to be known to every body, to all the world, Hor. S. 1, 7, 3.—

II A clipper, lopper, pruner, of plants: ramorum luxuriantium, Arn. 6, p. 197.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. tonsor (scan p. 719; entry #11946).

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