AUCTORES, auctores
Sounds Like: OWK-toh-res
Translations: authors, originators, instigators, founders, authorities, promoters
From the root: AUCTOR
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: AUCTORES is the plural form of the Latin noun AUCTOR. An AUCTOR is someone who produces, creates, or brings something into being. This can refer to an author of a book, an originator of an idea, an instigator of an action (like a rebellion), a founder of a city or institution, or a reliable authority or source of information. In the provided context, it likely refers to instigators or originators of sedition.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative or Vocative, Masculine
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, AUCTOR.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- AUCTOR — author, originator, founder, promoter, instigator, source, authority, guarantor, creator
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