FromLate Latinabactor(“cattle rustler”), fromabigō(“drive away”); fromab(“from, away from”) +agō(“drive”).[1]
abactor (pluralabactors)
- (law, archaic) One whosteals and drives awaycattle or beasts byherds ordroves; a cattlerustler.
- Synonyms:seeThesaurus:rustler
1659, H. Hammond,A Paraphrase and Annotations Upon the Books of the Psalms:[…] not only from straying, but, as in time of warr, from invaders andabactors[…]
1992, Okkūr Mācāttiyar, translated by K.G. Seshadri, “Purananuru 279”, inIndian Literature, volume35, number149,page27:But yesterday, / it was her husband / Who’d lost his life in the fight / As he beat theabactors back, / Who tried to seize their cattle.
one who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds
- ^Philip Babcock Gove (editor),Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909],→ISBN), page 3
Fromabigō(“drive away”), fromab(“from, away from”) +agō(“drive”).
abāctor m (genitiveabāctōris);third declension
- Acattlethief;abactor orrustler.
c. 125CE – 180CE,
Apuleius,
Metamorphoses7.26:
- ...meum vero Bellerophontemabactorem indubitatum cruentumque percussorem criminantes...
- ...and as for my Bellerophon, they accused him of being an undoubtedrustler and a bloody murderer.
c. 300CE – 400CE,
Julius Paulus Prudentissimus,
Pauli SententiaeV.18:
- Abactores sunt qui unum equum, duas equas, totidemque boves, vel capram decem, aut porcos quinque abegerint.
- Rustlers are those who drive away one stallion, two mares, as many cattle, or ten goats, or five pigs.
c. 600CE – 625CE,
Isidorus Hispalensis,
Etymologiae10.14:
- Abactor est fur iumentorum, et pecorum, quem vulgo abigeum vocant, ab abigendo scilicet.
- Abactor is a thief of draft animals and domestic animals, whom they call in vulgar Latinabigeus, naturally derived fromabigendo.
- A man whoabducts.
c. 334CE – 337CE,
Julius Firmicus Maternus,
Matheseos Libri VIIILiber VI.31.6:
- Si vero in aquosis signis fuerint constituti, pecorumabactores efficient, insequentibus hominibus minaci semper gladio resistentes.
- But if they are arranged in the water signs, they createabductors of domestic animals, opposing chasing men with an ever-threatening sword.
c. 343CE – 350CE,
Julius Firmicus Maternus,
De Errore Profanarum ReligionumCap V:
- Virum veroabactorem bovum colentes sacra eius ad ignis transferunt potestatem, sicut propheta eius tradidit nobis dicens...
- Their sacrifices, worshipping that man,abductor of the bull (Mithras), bring power to the fires, as their prophet imparted to us, saying...
Third-declension noun.
- “abactor”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “abactor”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- abactor, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese),University of Chicago, since 2011
- "abactor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Learned borrowing fromLatinabāctōrem.
- (Brazil)IPA(key): /a.bakˈtoʁ/[a.bakˈtoh],/a.ba.kiˈtoʁ/[a.ba.kiˈtoh]
- (Brazil)IPA(key): /a.bakˈtoʁ/[a.bakˈtoh],/a.ba.kiˈtoʁ/[a.ba.kiˈtoh]
abactor m (pluralabactores,feminineabactora,feminine pluralabactoras)
- abactor(cattle thief)
- Synonym:abígeo
