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Latin
Etymology 1
Verb
laqueātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of laqueō
Etymology 2
From laqueō (“to ensnare”) + -tor (“-er”).
Noun
laqueātor m (genitive laqueātōris); third declension
- (Late Latin, hapax) a gladiator who used a noose as a weapon
early 7th c. CE, Isidore of Seville,
Etymologiae sive Origines 18.56:
- Laqueatorum pugna erat fugientes in ludo homines iniecto laqueo inpeditos consecutosque prostrare amictos umbone pellicio.
c. 1160 – 1190, Hugutius Pisanus,
Derivationes L 67:
[1]- Item a laqueus laqueo -as, idest laqueo capere vel ligare, unde laqueator -ris, et designat officium ludendi: erat enim laqueatorum pugna fugientes in ludo homines iniecto laqueo impeditos consecutosque prosternere amictos umbone pelliceo.
Usage notes
Some editions of Isidore read laqueāriōrum instead of laqueātōrum.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
Further reading
- “laqueator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- laqueator in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016