speculator
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin speculātor (“spy, explorer, investigator”), from speculor (“to watch, to observe”) + -tor (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from specula (“watchtower”), from speciō (“to watch, to observe”), q.v. In some senses, an agent noun formed within English from speculate. Doublet of spectator.
Noun edit
speculator (plural speculators)
- One who speculates; an observer; a contemplator.
- c. 1683, Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts:
- a bold and paradoxical speculator
- One who forms theories; a theorist.
- 1666, Joseph Glanvill, Philosophical Considerations concerning Witches and Witchcraft:
- […] in things of Fact, the People are as much to be believed, as the most subtle Philosophers and Speculators, since here sense is the Judge.
- 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second:
- For, in the earlier part of the seventeenth century, a speculator who had dared to affirm that the human soul is by its nature mortal, and does, in the great majority of cases, actually die with the body, would have been burned alive in Smithfield.
- (business, finance) One who speculates; as in investing, one who is willing to take volatile risks upon invested principal for the potential of substantial returns.
- (rugby) Synonym of field goal
Related terms edit
Translations edit
one who speculates; as in investing
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See also edit
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From speculor (“to watch, to observe”) + -tor (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from specula (“watchtower”), from speciō (“to watch, to observe”). Doublet of spectator.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /spe.kuˈlaː.tor/, [s̠pɛkʊˈɫ̪äːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /spe.kuˈla.tor/, [spekuˈläːt̪or]
Noun edit
speculātor m (genitive speculātōris, feminine speculātrīx); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | speculātor | speculātōrēs |
Genitive | speculātōris | speculātōrum |
Dative | speculātōrī | speculātōribus |
Accusative | speculātōrem | speculātōrēs |
Ablative | speculātōre | speculātōribus |
Vocative | speculātor | speculātōrēs |
Descendants edit
- → Catalan: especulador
- → English: speculator
- → French: spéculateur
- → Byzantine Greek: σπεκουλάτωρ (spekoulátōr)
- → Aramaic::
- Jewish Palestinian Aramaic: אספקלטור (/*ʾespuqlāṭōr/)
- Christian Palestinian Aramaic: ܐܣܦܩܘܠܛܘܪ (/*ʾespuqlāṭōr/)
- Classical Syriac: ܐܷܣܦܽܘܩܠܴܛܪܐ (ʾespuqlāṭrā)
- Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אִסְפַּקְלָטוֺרָא (ʾispaqlāṭōrā)
- → Aramaic::
- → Gothic: 𐍃𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌿𐌻𐌰𐍄𐌿𐍂 (spaikulatur)
- → Italian: speculatore
- → Portuguese: especulador
- → Romanian: speculator
- → Spanish: especulador
Verb edit
speculātor
References edit
- “speculator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “speculator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- speculator 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)
- speculator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “speculator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French spéculateur. Equivalent to specula + -tor.
Noun edit
speculator m (uncountable)
Declension edit
declension of speculator (singular only)
singular | ||
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m gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) speculator | speculatorul |
genitive/dative | (unui) speculator | speculatorului |
vocative | speculatorule |