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Latin
Noun
pactor m (genitive pactōris); third declension
- One who makes a contract or treaty; negotiator.
70 BCE,
Cicero,
In Verrem 5.55:
- En foederum interpretes, societatis pactores, religionis auctores!
- Here are interpreters of treaties, settlers of the terms of alliances, authorities as to religious obligations!
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “pactor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pactor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pactor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.