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English
Etymology
From ruminate + -or.
Pronunciation
Noun
ruminator (plural ruminators)
- One who ruminates; one who meditates or reflects.
2008, Christopher Goffard, Snitch Jacket, page 74:An all-round terrific lady: sweet, compassionate, busty, pert-nosed, prone to floods of sudden tears, a lover of mini-skirts and tall leather boots and snug sweaters, which you somehow wore with total innocence, a worrier, a sweet ruminator by windows. a girl possessed of incredibly long. elegant eyelashes. and of course more flawlessly managed hair than a salonful of average girls could ever grow.
2009 January 25, Maria Russo, “Unhappy Together”, in The New York Times:The narrator is a reader and ruminator, a provocateur.
2010 February 25, Jonah Lehrer, “Depression’s Upside”, in The New York Times Magazine:They’re also more likely to become unnerved by stressful events: for instance, Nolen-Hoeksema found that residents of San Francisco who self-identified as ruminators showed significantly more depressive symptoms after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
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.