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English
Etymology
From castigate + -or.
Pronunciation
Noun
castigator (plural castigators)
- One who castigates.
Synonyms
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
castīgō (“to rebuke, criticise”) + -tor
Noun
castīgātor m (genitive castīgātōris); third declension
- a corrector; one who corrects or chastises
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
castīgātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of castīgō
References
- “castigator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “castigator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- castigator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) a stern critic of morals: severus morum castigator