castrator
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Noun edit
castrator (plural castrators)
- One who castrates (gelds or neuters).
- 2007 January 7, Lauren Collins, “Faces of War”, in New York Times[1]:
- “I remind myself,” McCleary says, unconvincingly, “that in medieval times, surgeons and dentists were classified under the sign of Mars along with butchers, barbers, tinkers, castrators of animals, murderers and hangmen.”
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person who castrates
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Latin edit
Verb edit
castrātor
References edit
- “castrator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- castrator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.