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English
Etymology
From Latin disceptātor.
Noun
disceptator (plural disceptators)
- (obsolete) One who arbitrates or decides; a judge.
1675, John Smith, Christian Religion's Appeal from the Groundless Prejudices of the Sceptick to the Bar of Common Reason:the inquisitivediſceptators of this Age
References
Latin
Etymology
disceptō + -tor
Noun
disceptātor m (genitive disceptātōris); third declension
- arbitrator, umpire, judge
- Synonyms: iūdex, arbiter, spectātor
- Coordinate term: (female) disceptātrīx
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Verb
disceptātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of disceptō
References
- “disceptator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “disceptator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- disceptator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.