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Mĕtăpīnus
mĕtaplasmus
mĕtaplastĭcōs
Mĕtăpontīnus
Mĕtăpontum
mētārĭus
mĕtastăsis
mĕtăsyncrĭtĭcus
mĕtăthĕsis
mētātĭo
mētātor
mētātōrĭus
mētātūra
Mĕtaurensis
Mĕtaurus
mĕtaxa or
mĕtaxārĭi
mĕtella
Mĕtellīnus
Mĕtellus
mĕtempsȳchōsis
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mētātor
mētātor, ōris, m. id., one who metes out or marks off a place, a divider and fixer of boundaries (class.). Lit.: castrorum antea metator, nunc, ut sperat, urbis, Cic. Phil. 11, 5, 12; cf. id. ib. 14, 4, 10: templi, Lact. 4, 11.— Trop., a measurer: tempus arbiter et metator initii et finis, Tert. adv. Marc. 1, 8.

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Headword:
mētātor
Headword (normalized):
mētātor
Headword (normalized/stripped):
metator
IDX:
28945
URN:
urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionary-entries.atlas_v1:lat.ls.perseus-eng2-n28923
Key:
metator

Data

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