English edit

Etymology edit

Latin; see jaculate.

Noun edit

jaculator (plural jaculators)

  1. One who throws or casts.
  2. (zoology) The archerfish.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “jaculator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin edit

Verb edit

jaculātor

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

References edit

  • jaculator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • jaculator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette