delatorum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →defero, deferre, detuli, delatus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
carry/bring/sink/fall down/off; convey/deliver/transfer; reduce/slope (down to);; flow/carry/run down (to sea); pay/remit; deposit/record/register; bear/produce;; bring/lodge information (about), report; indict, accuse, denounce; defer (to);; offer; bestow upon, confer/award/grant, entrust; submit, refer for decision;; honor; export (medieval usage);
gen. pl. perf. pass. part.gen. pl. perf. pass. part. - Entry →delator, delatoris:
Masculine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
informer, who gives information/reports; accuser/denouncer/who accuses of crime;
gen. pl.
Examples
- P
Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...orbitate: ceterum multitudo periclitantium gliscebat, cum omnis domus delatorum interpretationibus subverteretur, utque antehac flagitiis ita tunc legibus laborabatur..." - P
Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...virtutes certissimum exitium. nec minus praemia delatorum invisa quam scelera, cum alii sacerdotia et consulatus ut spolia adepti..." - G
Liber IV
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...periculis ipsis magna erant, dicerem de conspiratione delatorum quam in quaestu habebant, dicerem causas quibus factiosissimum quemque..." - G
Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...pulchrum spectaculum pro illo nobis exsecrabili reddidisti! Vidimus delatorum iudicium, quasi grassatorum quasi latronum. Non solitudinem illi..."