ambulator

English

Noun

ambulator (plural ambulators)

1. A walker; one who walks.

Latin

Etymology

From ambulō (“walk; travel”) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /am.buˈlaː.tor/, [ämbʊˈɫ̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /am.buˈla.tor/, [ämbuˈläːt̪or]

Noun

ambulātor m (genitive ambulātōris); third declension

1. A person that walks about; walker.
2. idler, lounger
3. peddler, hawker

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ambulātor	ambulātōrēs
Genitive	ambulātōris	ambulātōrum
Dative	ambulātōrī	ambulātōribus
Accusative	ambulātōrem	ambulātōrēs
Ablative	ambulātōre	ambulātōribus
Vocative	ambulātor	ambulātōrēs

Derived terms

• ambulātōrius
• ambulātrix

Related terms

• ambulācrum
• ambulātilis
• ambulātiō
• ambulātiuncula
• ambulātūra
• ambulātus
• ambulō

Descendants

• English: ambulator

Verb

ambulātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of ambulō

References

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