divinator
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin . See divination.
Noun edit
divinator (plural divinators)
- One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
- Of this number are all superstitious idolaters, ethnicks, Mahometans, Jewes, heretiques, enthusiasts, divinators, prophets, sectaries, and schismatiques
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “divinator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From dīvīnō (“to foresee; to foretell”) + -tor.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /diː.u̯iːˈnaː.tor/, [d̪iːu̯iːˈnäːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /di.viˈna.tor/, [d̪iviˈnäːt̪or]
Noun edit
dīvīnātor m (genitive dīvīnātōris); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | dīvīnātor | dīvīnātōrēs |
Genitive | dīvīnātōris | dīvīnātōrum |
Dative | dīvīnātōrī | dīvīnātōribus |
Accusative | dīvīnātōrem | dīvīnātōrēs |
Ablative | dīvīnātōre | dīvīnātōribus |
Vocative | dīvīnātor | dīvīnātōrēs |
Verb edit
dīvīnātor
References edit
- “divinator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- divinator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French divinatoire.
Adjective edit
divinator m or n (feminine singular divinatoare, masculine plural divinatori, feminine and neuter plural divinatoare)
Declension edit
Declension of divinator
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | divinator | divinatoare | divinatori | divinatoare | ||
definite | divinatorul | divinatoarea | divinatorii | divinatoarele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | divinator | divinatoare | divinatori | divinatoare | ||
definite | divinatorului | divinatoarei | divinatorilor | divinatoarelor |