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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin gesticulātor.
Noun
gesticulator (plural gesticulators)
- One who gesticulates
Translations
References
Latin
Etymology
From gesticulor + -tor.
Pronunciation
Noun
gesticulātor m (genitive gesticulātōris); third declension
- gesticulator; one who gesticulates
- pantomime, mime, actor
- Synonyms: histriō, mīmus, pantomīmus
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
Descendants
- Gallo-Romance
- Ibero-Romance
- Italo-Romance
- West Germanic
References
- “gesticulator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- gesticulator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- gesticulator in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “gesticulator”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
- “gesticulator” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
- “gesticulator” on page 763 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)