orator

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English

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Etymology

From Middle English oratour, from Anglo-Norman oratour, from Latin ōrātor.

Pronunciation

Noun

orator (plural orators)

  1. Someone who orates or delivers an oration.
  2. A skilled and eloquent public speaker.
    • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
      Tam[burlaine]. Then ſhall we fight couragiouſlye with them?
      Or looke you, I ſhould play the Orator?
      Tech[elles]. No: cowards and faint-hearted runawaies,
      Looke for orations when the foe is neere.
      Our ſwordes shall play the Orators for vs.
  3. (obsolete) Someone sent to speak for someone else; an envoy, a messenger.
  4. (obsolete) A petitioner, a supplicant.

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Indonesian

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Etymology

From Dutch orateur, orator, from Latin orator.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: ora‧tor

Noun

orator (first-person possessive oratorku, second-person possessive oratormu, third-person possessive oratornya)

  1. orator.

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

From ōrō +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

Noun

ōrātor m (genitive ōrātōris, feminine ōrātrīx); third declension

  1. An orator, speaker.
  2. A spokesman, spokesperson.
  3. An ambassador (one entrusted with an oral message))

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

  • orator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • orator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • orator 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)
  • orator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to sketch the ideal of an orator: imaginem perfecti oratoris adumbrare
    • to be considered the foremost orator: primum or principem inter oratores locum obtinere
    • to say only a few words: pauca dicere (pauca verba dicere only of the orator)
  • orator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • orator in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • orator”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Polish

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ōrātor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔˈra.tɔr/
  • Rhymes: -atɔr
  • Syllabification: o‧ra‧tor

Noun

orator m pers (female equivalent oratorka, related adjective oratorski)

  1. (literary) orator, oratist, wordsmith (skilled and eloquent public speaker)
    Synonyms: krasomówca, retor
    Hypernym: mówca

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Further reading

  • orator in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • orator in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin orator or French orateur.

Noun

orator m (plural oratori, feminine equivalent oratoare)

  1. orator, speaker

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ǒraːtor/
  • Hyphenation: o‧ra‧tor

Noun

òrātor m (Cyrillic spelling о̀ра̄тор)

  1. orator

Declension

Swedish

Noun

orator c

  1. an orator

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