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English
Etymology
From Middle English rethor, from Old French retor and Latin rhētor, rētor, rēthor (“teacher of rhetoric, rhetorician”), from Ancient Greek ῥήτωρ (rhḗtōr).
Pronunciation
Noun
rhetor (plural rhetors)
- (archaic) A rhetorician.
early 16th c., William Dunbar, Remonstrance to the King:Schir, ye have mony servitouris, / And officiaris of dyvers curis, / Kirkmen, courtmen, and craftismen fyne, / Doctouris in jure and medicyne, / Divinouris, rethoris, and philosophouris, / Astrologis, artistis, and oratouris, / Men of armes and vailyeand knychtis, / And mony uther gudlie wichtis, / Musicianis, menstralis, and mirrie singaris, / Chevalouris, cawandaris, and flingaris, / Cunyouris, carvouris, and carpentaris, / Beildaris of barkis and ballingaris, / Masounis lyand upon the land, / And schipwrichtis hewand upone the strand, / Glasing wrichtis, goldsmythis, and lapidaris, / Pryntouris, payntouris, and potingaris, / And all of thair craft cunning, / And all at anis lawboring, / Quhilk pleisand ar and honorable, / And to your hienes profitable, / And richt convenient for to be, / With your hie regale majestie, / Deservand of your grace most ding, / Bayth thank, rewarde, and cherissing.
- 1643, Henry Hammond, Christ and Barabbas (a sermon)
- Your hearing , which is mostly the fairest part of you , what is it but as of a rhetor at a desk , to commend or dislike , the same which you have as well for the stage as the pulpit , a plaudit or an hiss
References
“rhetor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ῥήτωρ (rhḗtōr).
Pronunciation
Noun
rhētor m (genitive rhētoris); third declension
- teacher of rhetoric.
- (derogatory) orator, rhetorician.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “rhetor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rhetor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rhetor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a teacher of rhetoric: rhetor, dicendi magister
- fine, rhetorical phrases: flosculi, rhetorum pompa
- Professor Kidd, et al. Collins Gem Latin Dictionary. HarperCollins Publishers (Glasgow: 2004). →ISBN. page 306.