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English
Etymology
Latin
Noun
probator (plural probators)
- An examiner; an approver.
1691, Henry Maydman, Naval Speculations, AND Maritime Politicks: Being a Modest and Brief DISCOURSE OF THE Royal Navy OF ENGLAND: OF Its Oeconomy and Government, AND A Projection for an everlasting Seminary of Seamen, by a Royal Maritime Hospital.:Warranted Officers, that are reckoned ancient experienced Men of the same Employments, some nominated, and appointed for Probators, as well as all from the Captains and Commissioners
- (law, UK, obsolete) One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it and accused his accomplices in order to obtain pardon.
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Anagrams
Latin
Etymology 1
From probō + -tor.
Noun
probātor m (genitive probātōris); third declension
- approver
- examiner
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
probātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of probō
References
- “probator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “probator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- probator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French probatoire.
Adjective
probator m or n (feminine singular probatoare, masculine plural probatori, feminine and neuter plural probatoare)
- probationary
Declension