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Latin
Etymology
pervādō + -tor
Pronunciation
Noun
pervāsor m (genitive pervāsōris); third declension (Late Latin, Medieval Latin)
- invader
- Synonym: invāsor
- usurper
c. 870, Anastasius Bibliothecarius, transl., Gesta sanctae ac universalis octavae synodi , actio 7:Jam manifestum est, o dilectissimi fratres et consacerdotes, in praecedenti actione hujus sanctae ac magnae synodi, quomodo admonitus sit Photius forensis et curialis, et pervasor Constantinopolitanae ecclesiae […]- Now it is evident, dearest brothers and fellow-priests, in the previous transaction of this holy and great synod, in what manner Photius the layman and courtier, the usurper of the Constantinopolitan Church, is to be admonished
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “pervasor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pervasor 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)
- pervasor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “pervasor”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 795