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Latin
Etymology
From rogō (“ask; request”) + -tor.
Pronunciation
Noun
rogātor m (genitive rogātōris); third declension
- Someone who proposes a law to the people; the proposer of a law, presenter of a bill.
- An officer in the voting comitia who asked the people for their votes; a collector of votes, a polling clerk.
- Someone who makes a proposal or request; proposer.
- A beggar, mendicant.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “rogator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rogator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rogator 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)
- rogator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.