confirmator

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

confirmator (plural confirmators)

1. (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

• “confirmator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kon.fiːrˈmaː.tor/, [kõːfiːrˈmäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.firˈma.tor/, [koɱfirˈmäːt̪or]

Etymology 1

cōnfīrmō (“to confirm, assert”) +‎ -tor

Noun

cōnfīrmātor m (genitive cōnfīrmātōris); third declension

1. one who, or that which, confirms, establishes or assures something

   cōnfīrmātor pecūniae ― a surety

Declension

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cōnfirmātor

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

References

• “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.