assentator

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin assentātor, from assentari (“to assent constantly”).

Noun

assentator (plural assentators)

1. An obsequious flatterer.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “assentator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Alternative forms

• adsentātor

Etymology

From assentor +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /as.senˈtaː.tor/, [äs̠ːɛn̪ˈt̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /as.senˈta.tor/, [äsːen̪ˈt̪äːt̪or]

Noun

assentātor m (genitive assentātōris, feminine assentātrīx); third declension

1. yes man
2. flatterer, toady

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	assentātor	assentātōrēs
Genitive	assentātōris	assentātōrum
Dative	assentātōrī	assentātōribus
Accusative	assentātōrem	assentātōrēs
Ablative	assentātōre	assentātōribus
Vocative	assentātor	assentātōrēs

Verb

assentātor

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of assentor

References

• “assentator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• assentator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• assentator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to turn a deaf ear to, to open one's ears to..: aures claudere, patefacere (e.g. veritati, assentatoribus)