confirmator
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
confirmator (plural confirmators)
- (archaic) # Someone or something that confirms; a confirmer.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- the definitive confirmator and test of things uncertain
References edit
- “confirmator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kon.fiːrˈmaː.tor/, [kõːfiːrˈmäːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kon.firˈma.tor/, [koɱfirˈmäːt̪or]
Etymology 1 edit
cōnfīrmō (“to confirm, assert”) + -tor
Noun edit
cōnfīrmātor m (genitive cōnfīrmātōris); third declension
- one who, or that which, confirms, establishes or assures something
- cōnfīrmātor pecūniae ― a surety
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cōnfīrmātor | cōnfīrmātōrēs |
| Genitive | cōnfīrmātōris | cōnfīrmātōrum |
| Dative | cōnfīrmātōrī | cōnfīrmātōribus |
| Accusative | cōnfīrmātōrem | cōnfīrmātōrēs |
| Ablative | cōnfīrmātōre | cōnfīrmātōribus |
| Vocative | cōnfīrmātor | cōnfīrmātōrēs |
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
cōnfirmātor
References edit
- “confirmator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “confirmator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- confirmator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.