expilator

English

Etymology

From Latin expīlātor, from expīlō.

Noun

expilator (plural expilators)

1. (obsolete) One who plunders or pillages.
   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 26:

     for which the most barbarous Expilators found the most civill Rhetorick

Anagrams

• pixelator

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ek.spiːˈlaː.tor/, [ɛks̠piːˈɫ̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ek.spiˈla.tor/, [ekspiˈläːt̪or]

Etymology 1

expīlō (“to pillage, plunder”) +‎ -tor

Noun

expīlātor m (genitive expīlātōris); third declension

1. pillager, plunderer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	expīlātor	expīlātōrēs
Genitive	expīlātōris	expīlātōrum
Dative	expīlātōrī	expīlātōribus
Accusative	expīlātōrem	expīlātōrēs
Ablative	expīlātōre	expīlātōribus
Vocative	expīlātor	expīlātōrēs

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

expīlātor

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

References

• “expilator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “expilator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• expilator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.