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English
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English depopulator, borrowed Latin dēpopulātor. By surface analysis, depopulate + -or.
Noun
depopulator (plural depopulators)
- A person who depopulates an area, especially one who forcibly removes people from an estate.
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From dēpopulor (“to sack, ravage”) + -tor.
Noun
dēpopulātor m (genitive dēpopulātōris); third declension
- marauder, pillager
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
dēpopulātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of dēpopulō
References
- “depopulator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “depopulator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- depopulator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.