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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin laudator.
Noun
laudator (plural laudators)
- One who lauds.
1992, Historia, page 293:As in most speeches, exaggeration and embellishment were standard devices by which the laudator amplified his subject's virtues or vices.
2007, Hanna Boeke, The Value of Victory in Pindar's Odes, page 172:To the extent that he is visible at all, the poet fulfils the role of laudator, not commentator on or representative of a world view.
2012, Tuana Dowan, Thena: Fight for the Future, page 377:When he made all those wrong decisions in his business and private life, he expected me to be a sycophant, a laudator,or a yes-man.
Further reading
- “laudator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “laudator”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “laudator”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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Latin
Etymology
From laudō + -tor.
Pronunciation
Noun
laudātor m (genitive laudātōris, feminine laudātrīx); third declension
- praiser, eulogizer, panegyrist
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
Verb
laudātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of laudō
References
- “laudator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “laudator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- laudator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- laudator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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