apparitor
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Latin appāritor (“public servant”), from appareo (“I wait upon”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
apparitor (plural apparitors)
- (historical) An officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.
- 1857, Thomas De Quincey, Richard Bentley:
- Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world.
- A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court.
- 1797, Richard Burn, Ecclesiastical Law:
- a monition be awarded to an apparitor, to summon a man
References edit
- “apparitor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From appāreō (“wait upon”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /apˈpaː.ri.tor/, [äpˈpäːrɪt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /apˈpa.ri.tor/, [äpˈpäːrit̪or]
Noun edit
appāritor m (genitive appāritōris); third declension
- a gatekeeper
- Synonym: cūstos
- a public servant
- Synonym: familiāris
- a servant, secretary, lictor, deputy
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | appāritor | appāritōrēs |
Genitive | appāritōris | appāritōrum |
Dative | appāritōrī | appāritōribus |
Accusative | appāritōrem | appāritōrēs |
Ablative | appāritōre | appāritōribus |
Vocative | appāritor | appāritōrēs |
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- French: appariteur
References edit
- “apparitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “apparitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- apparitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.