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English
Etymology
From Latin indāgātor (“investigator”).
Noun
indagator (plural indagators)
- (obsolete) An investigator.
1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, pages 5–6:For that, being the number of the Elements, Principles, or Materiall Ingredients of Bodies, is an enquiry whole truth is of that Importance, and of that Difficulty, that it may as well deserve as require to be searched into by such skilfull Indagators of Nature as your selves.
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
indagō (“to trace, explore”) + -tor
Noun
indāgātor m (genitive indāgātōris, feminine indāgātrīx); third declension
- investigator, researcher
- Synonym: investīgātor
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
indāgātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of indāgō
References
- “indagator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- indagator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.