coactor Latin · revision 34639

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=la cōgō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''coāctor''' ''m'' (genitive coāctōris, feminine coāctrīx); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ The spelling ''coator'' is found in inscriptions.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|cōgō|-tor|t1=to drive together, collect]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) formed on its past participle [[m|la|coāctus]].^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cato has it first,^(Köbler 2010) in a sale contract in the ''De agri cultura'', of the man who collects the money.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Cicero and Horace it is a collector of payments, such as the proceeds of auctions: Cicero mentions how “our collectors” deal with the one-per-cent charge, and Horace imagines being a ''praeco'' or a ''coactor''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Inscriptions name a ''coactor argentarius'' and a ''coactor vinarius'' (of the wine trade).^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Lewis and Short and Gaffiot also take one inscription's ''coactor'' as a fuller.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ Tacitus calls the troops at the rear of a column ''agminis coactores''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Seneca uses it figuratively, of someone who needs not only a guide but a helper and, as he puts it, a “compeller”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of the collector of money in a sale.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero mentions collectors of payments.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace pairs it with ''praeco''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of one who compels.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus calls the rearguard ''agminis coactores''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|collector]] of money (of auction proceeds, payments or taxes).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''agminis coactores'', the troops bringing up the [[m|en|rear]], the [[m|en|rearguard]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(figurative)'' One who compels.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # A [[m|en|fuller]] (in an inscription).^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cōgō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}