praedicator

Latin

Etymology

From praedicō (“proclaim, announce”) +‎ -tor (“-er”, agent suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /prae̯.diˈkaː.tor/, [präe̯d̪ɪˈkäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pre.diˈka.tor/, [pred̪iˈkäːt̪or]

Noun

praedicātor m (genitive praedicātōris, feminine praedicātrīx); third declension

1. one who makes a thing publicly known, a proclaimer, publisher, crier

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	praedicātor	praedicātōrēs
Genitive	praedicātōris	praedicātōrum
Dative	praedicātōrī	praedicātōribus
Accusative	praedicātōrem	praedicātōrēs
Ablative	praedicātōre	praedicātōribus
Vocative	praedicātor	praedicātōrēs

Descendants

• Catalan: predicador
• French: prédicateur
• Galician: predicador
• Italian: predicatore
• Portuguese: predicador
• Romanian: predicator
• Spanish: predicador
• Dutch: prediker

Verb

praedicātor

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

References

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