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English
Etymology
From Latin joculātus. Doublet of juggler and jongleur.
Noun
joculator (plural joculators)
- (obsolete) A jester; a joker.
'1801, Joseph Strutt, The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England:The joculators were sometimes excellent tumblers; yet, generally speaking, I believe that vaulting, tumbling, and balancing, were not exectued by the chieftan of the gleeman's company, but by some of his confederates
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Latin
Noun
joculātor m (genitive joculātōris); third declension
- Alternative form of ioculātor
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “joculator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- joculator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.