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Latin
Etymology
From *salisō (“to jump”) + -tor.
Pronunciation
Noun
salisātor m (genitive salisātōris); third declension (hapax)
- a superstitious person who takes the twitching of body parts as omen
c. 600 CE – 625 CE,
Isidorus Hispalensis,
Etymologiae 8.9.29:
- Salisātōrēs vocātī sunt, quia dum eīs membrōrum quaecumque partēs salierint, aliquid sibi exinde prosperum seu trīste sīgnificāre praedīcunt.
- Salisatores are called so because they immediately predict it to mean something either fortunate or unfortunate for themselves when any body part of theirs twitches.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “salisator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- salisator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.