sectator

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin sectātor, from sector, frequentative of sequor (“follow”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɛkˈteɪtə/

Noun

sectator (plural sectators)

1. (now rare) A follower, a disciple; someone who follows a particular school; partisan.
   • 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, section II:

     But that the Earth, Water, Air, are of a nature equally constituted immoveable about the centre, is it not the opinion of your self, Aristotle, Ptolomy, and all their sectators?

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “sectator”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• carottes, cotreats, crostate

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sekˈtaː.tor/, [s̠ɛkˈt̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sekˈta.tor/, [sekˈt̪äːt̪or]

Noun

sectātor m (genitive sectātōris); third declension

1. follower, attendant, adherent

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sectātor	sectātōrēs
Genitive	sectātōris	sectātōrum
Dative	sectātōrī	sectātōribus
Accusative	sectātōrem	sectātōrēs
Ablative	sectātōre	sectātōribus
Vocative	sectātor	sectātōrēs

Verb

sectātor

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

Further reading

• “sectator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sectator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sectator 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)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sectateur.

Noun

sectator m (plural sectatori)

1. sectator

Declension

Declension of sectator

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) sectator	sectatorul	(niște) sectatori	sectatorii
genitive/dative	(unui) sectator	sectatorului	(unor) sectatori	sectatorilor
vocative	sectatorule		sectatorilor

References

• sectator in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN