abnegator
English edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin abnegator, from abnegatus. Equivalent to abnegate + -or.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
abnegator (plural abnegators)
- (rare) One who abnegates, denies, or rejects. [From early 17th century.]
- 1605, Edwin Sandys, A Relation of the State of Religion[1], London: Simon Waterson:
- On the other side, representing a serpentine generation wholy, made of fraud, policies, and practises, men lovers of the world, and haters of truth and godlinesse, fighters against the light, protectors of darkenesse, persecuters of marriage, and patrons of brothelles, abnegators and dispencers against the lawes of God […]
- 1914, George Bernard Shaw, “Preface for Politicians”, in John Bull’s Other Island[2], London: Constable, page xix:
- The Catholic is theoretically a Collectivist, a self-abnegator, a Tory, a Conservative, a supporter of Church and State one and undivisible, an obeyer.
Translations edit
Translations
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
From abnegō (“refuse, deny, decline”) + -tor.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ab.neˈɡaː.tor/, [äbnɛˈɡäːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ab.neˈɡa.tor/, [äbneˈɡäːt̪or]
Noun edit
abnegātor m (genitive abnegātōris); third declension
- a denier
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | abnegātor | abnegātōrēs |
Genitive | abnegātōris | abnegātōrum |
Dative | abnegātōrī | abnegātōribus |
Accusative | abnegātōrem | abnegātōrēs |
Ablative | abnegātōre | abnegātōribus |
Vocative | abnegātor | abnegātōrēs |
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → English: abnegator
References edit
- “abnegator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- abnegator in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016