The corpus record — Latin

venator

venator · m

a hunter

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Where it lives

Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Ad Martyras 1 · 6.72/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 6 · 5.47/10k
Gallieni Duo 2 · 5.44/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
Opilius Macrinus 1 · 4.02/10k
Avidius Cassius 1 · 3.83/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 3.37/10k
Achilleis 2 · 2.78/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k

Densest 12 of 46 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vēnātor — Lewis & Short

vēnātor, ōris, m.venor,

I a hunter.

I Lit.

A In gen.: quasi venator tu quidem es, dies atque noctes cum cane aetatem exigis, Plaut. Cas. 2, 5, 11; Cic. Tusc. 2, 17, 40; Caes. B. G. 6, 27; Hor. C. 1, 1, 26; 1, 37, 19; id. S. 1, 2, 105: COLLEGIVM VENATORVM, Inscr. Murat. 531, 2.—In apposit.: venator canis, a hunting-dog, hound, Verg. A. 12, 751: equus, a hunting-horse, hunter, Stat. Th. 9, 685; cf. venatrix.—

B In partic. (cf. venatio, I. B.), one who fights with wild beasts in the arena, Dig. 48, 19, 8, § 11; Tert. ad Mart. 5.—

II Trop.: venator adest nostris consiliis cum auritis plagis, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 14: physicus, id est speculator venatorque naturae, Cic. N. D. 1, 30, 83.

In the wild

venator Seneca, De Clementia 1.16.5
venatori Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 3.194
venatoremque Cicero, de Natura Deorum 1.83
venatores Historia Augusta, Antoninus Pius 7
venator Seneca, Phaedra 1
venatores Historia Augusta, Alexander Severus 37

6 of 84 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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