divinator

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English

Etymology

From Latin . See divination.

Noun

divinator (plural divinators)

  1. One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      Of this number are all superstitious idolaters, ethnicks, Mahometans, Jewes, heretiques, enthusiasts, divinators, prophets, sectaries, and schismatiques

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “divinator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Etymology

From dīvīnō (“to foresee; to foretell”) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

Noun

dīvīnātor m (genitive dīvīnātōris); third declension

  1. soothsayer; seer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative dīvīnātor dīvīnātōrēs
genitive dīvīnātōris dīvīnātōrum
dative dīvīnātōrī dīvīnātōribus
accusative dīvīnātōrem dīvīnātōrēs
ablative dīvīnātōre dīvīnātōribus
vocative dīvīnātor dīvīnātōrēs

Verb

dīvīnātor

  1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of dīvīnō

References

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French divinatoire.

Adjective

divinator m or n (feminine singular divinatoare, masculine plural divinatori, feminine and neuter plural divinatoare)

  1. divinatory

Declension

singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative 		indefinite divinator divinatoare divinatori divinatoare
definite divinatorul divinatoarea divinatorii divinatoarele
genitive-
dative 		indefinite divinator divinatoare divinatori divinatoare
definite divinatorului divinatoarei divinatorilor divinatoarelor
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