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English
Etymology
From co- + actor.
Noun
coactor (plural coactors)
- (biology) An organism that participates in coaction
- A joint actor; one who acts with other people in some enterprise
Synonyms
Latin
Etymology
From cōgō (“I force, compel”).
Noun
coāctor m (genitive coāctōris, feminine coāctrīx); third declension
- collector of money (tax, revenues, auctions, etc.)
- one who compels
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Verb
coāctor
- first-person singular present passive indicative of coāctō
References
- “coactor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “coactor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- coactor 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)
- coactor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “coactor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “coactor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin