The corpus record — Latin

vestigator

vestigator · m

a tracker

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Where it lives

Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

vestīgātor — Lewis & Short

vestīgātor or vestīgĭātor, ōris, m.vestigo,

I a tracker, spy, tracer, searcher (not in Cic.): vestigator a vestigiis ferarum, quas indagatur, Varr. L. L. 5, § 94 Müll. (where the read. is vestigiator); so Col. 9, 8, 10; Sen. Ben. 3, 26, 2; Dig. 33, 7, 12, § 12.

In the wild

vestigatore Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 9.8.10
vestigator Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 9.8.12
vestigatorum Apuleius, Metamorphoses 8.4
vestigatoribus Seneca, De Beneficiis 3.26.2

Where it came from

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