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Latin
Noun
excubitor m (genitive excubitōris); third declension
- guard, sentinel, watchman
- An imperial guard of early Byzantine emperors.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “excubitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “excubitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- excubitor 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)
- excubitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.