English edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

co- +‎ actor

Noun edit

coactor (plural coactors)

  1. (biology) An organism that participates in coaction
  2. A joint actor; one who acts with other people in some enterprise

Synonyms edit

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From cōgō (I force, compel).

Noun edit

coāctor m (genitive coāctōris); third declension

  1. collector of money (tax, revenues, auctions, etc)
  2. one who compels

Declension edit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative coāctor coāctōrēs
Genitive coāctōris coāctōrum
Dative coāctōrī coāctōribus
Accusative coāctōrem coāctōrēs
Ablative coāctōre coāctōribus
Vocative coāctor coāctōrēs

Verb edit

coāctor

  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of coāctō

References edit

  • coactor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • coactor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • coactor 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)
  • coactor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • coactor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • coactor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin