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English
Etymology
From ruminate + -or.
Pronunciation
Noun
ruminator (plural ruminators)
- One who ruminates; one who meditates or reflects.
2009 January 25, Maria Russo, “Unhappy Together”, in New York Times:The narrator is a reader and ruminator, a provocateur.
Latin
Verb
rūminātor
- second/third-person singular future active imperative of rūminor
References
- “ruminator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ruminator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.