auscultator

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English

Noun

auscultator (plural auscultators)

  1. Someone who performs auscultation.
  2. An instrument for auscultation.
  3. (historical) In Germany, one who had passed his first public examination in law, and who was merely retained, not yet employed or paid by government.

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Latin

Etymology

auscultō +‎ -tor

Pronunciation

Noun

auscultātor m (genitive auscultātōris); third declension

  1. listener

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

  • English: auscultator
  • Portuguese: auscultador

References

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