The corpus record — Latin

tritor

tritor · m

a rubber

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Where it lives

Persa 2 · 2.54/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

trītor — Lewis & Short

trītor, ōris, m.tero,

I a rubber, grinder, chafer: colorum, a grinder of colors, Plin. 35, 11, 40, § 145: compedium, a chain-rubber, a term of reproach applied to a chained slave, Plaut. Pers. 3, 3, 15: stimulorum, of one who is often scourged, id. ib. 5, 2, 17: ARGENTARIVS, i. e. caelator, Inscr. Rein. cl. 11, n. 97.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. tritor (scan p. 711; entry #11800). Root candidates: *tré-.

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