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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin assentātor, from assentari (“to assent constantly”).
Noun
assentator (plural assentators)
- (archaic) An obsequious flatterer; a yes man.
References
Latin
Etymology
From assentor + -tor.
Pronunciation
Noun
assentātor m (genitive assentātōris, feminine assentātrīx); third declension
- yes man
- flatterer, toady
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Verb
assentātor
- second/third-person singular future active imperative of assentor
References
- “assentator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- assentator 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)
- assentator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to turn a deaf ear to, to open one's ears to..: aures claudere, patefacere (e.g. veritati, assentatoribus)