unctor — Lewis & Short
unctor, ōris, m.ungo,
I an anointer, Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 22; Mart. 12, 70, 3; 7, 32, 6; 12, 70, 3; Cic. Fam. 7, 24, 2; Quint. 11, 3, 26; Aug. Civ. Dei, 6, 10, 2; Inscr. Orell. 2791; Inscr. Grut. 785, 5.
The corpus record — Latin
unctor
unctor · m
an anointer
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
- Trinummus 1 · 1.02/10k
- Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
- Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k
- Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
- Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k
- Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- unctores Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 20.123.4
- unctor Martial, Epigrammata 12.70.3
- unctoribus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.1.p2
- unctores Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.3.26
- unctorem Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 7.24.2
- unctor Martial, Epigrammata 7.32.6
6 of 8 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.