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English
Etymology
From Latin expīlātor, from expīlō.
Noun
expilator (plural expilators)
- (obsolete) One who plunders or pillages.
1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 26:for which the most barbarous Expilators found the most civill Rhetorick
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
expīlō (“to pillage, plunder”) + -tor
Noun
expīlātor m (genitive expīlātōris); third declension
- pillager, plunderer
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
expīlātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of expīlō
References
- “expilator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “expilator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934) “expilator”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.