jaculator

English

Etymology

Latin; see jaculate.

Noun

jaculator (plural jaculators)

1. One who throws or casts.
2. The archerfish.
3. (botany) A retinaculum

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “jaculator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

jaculātor

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of jaculor

References

• “jaculator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• jaculator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.