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Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
exīstimō (“to suppose, consider”) + -tor
Noun
exīstimātor m (genitive exīstimātōris); third declension
- judge, critic
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
exīstimātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of exīstimō
References
- “existimator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “existimator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- existimator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) a (competent, intelligent, subtle) critic: existimator (doctus, intellegens, acerrimus)