Factor, tôris, m. g. A maker or doer.Factor. Cato. A presser or maker of wine or oile.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
factor, ōris, m. [id.], a maker, doer, performer, perpetrator (ante- and postclass.). I. In gen.: cuparum doliorumque, Pall. 1, 6: qui praepositum suum non praetexit, cum posset, in pari causa factori habendus est,
, id. Rom. 2, 13; id. Jacob, 1, 23.—II. In partic. A. In econom. lang., an oil-presser, Cato, R. R. 13; 64; 66; 67.— B. In ball-playing, he who strikes the ball, the batsman, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 18; cf. dator.