explorator
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin explōrātor.
Noun edit
explorator (plural explorators)
References edit
- “explorator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From explōrāre (“to explore, to spy upon, to test”) + -tor (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from ex- (“out”) + plōrāre (“to shout, to cry”), possibly with reference to raising game while hunting by sending out cryers.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ek.sploːˈraː.tor/, [ɛks̠pɫ̪oːˈräːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ek.sploˈra.tor/, [eksploˈräːt̪or]
Noun edit
explōrātor m (genitive explōrātōris); third declension
- a scout
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.11:
- Qua re per exploratores nuntiata
- These things having been announced by the scouts
- Qua re per exploratores nuntiata
- a spy
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | explōrātor | explōrātōrēs |
Genitive | explōrātōris | explōrātōrum |
Dative | explōrātōrī | explōrātōribus |
Accusative | explōrātōrem | explōrātōrēs |
Ablative | explōrātōre | explōrātōribus |
Vocative | explōrātor | explōrātōrēs |
Descendants edit
- Catalan: explorador
- → English: explorator
- French: explorateur
- Galician: explorador
- Italian: esploratore
- Portuguese: explorador
- Romanian: explorator
- Spanish: explorador
References edit
- “explorator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “explorator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- explorator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French explorateur. Equivalent to explora + -tor.
Noun edit
explorator m (plural exploratori)
Declension edit
Declension of explorator
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) explorator | exploratorul | (niște) exploratori | exploratorii |
genitive/dative | (unui) explorator | exploratorului | (unor) exploratori | exploratorilor |
vocative | exploratorule | exploratorilor |