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Latin
Etymology
Derived from captō + -tor
Pronunciation
Noun
captātor m (genitive captātōris, feminine captātrix); third declension
- legacy hunter, grabber (a man who practically made his career by obsequiously bootlicking/brown-nosing wealthy patrons with the goal of receiving the inheritance of a patron and not have to work subsequently)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Synonyms
Verb
captātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of captō
References
- “captator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “captator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- captator 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)
- captator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Romanian
Etymology
From capta + -tor.
Noun
captator n (plural captatoare)
- capturer (object)
Declension