derogator

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dērogātor, from dērogō.

Noun

derogator (plural derogators)

  1. A detractor.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “derogator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Etymology

From dērogō (“repeal or modify part of a law; remove; disparage”) +‎ -tor, from de (“of; from, away from”) + rogō (“ask; request”).

Pronunciation

Noun

dērogātor m (genitive dērogātōris); third declension

  1. A detractor, depreciator.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative dērogātor dērogātōrēs
genitive dērogātōris dērogātōrum
dative dērogātōrī dērogātōribus
accusative dērogātōrem dērogātōrēs
ablative dērogātōre dērogātōribus
vocative dērogātor dērogātōrēs

References

  • “derogator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • derogator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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