sectator

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sectātor, from sector, frequentative of sequor (follow).

Pronunciation

Noun

sectator (plural sectators)

  1. (now rare) A follower, a disciple; someone who follows a particular school; partisan.
    • 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, section II:
      But that the Earth, Water, Air, are of a nature equally constituted immoveable about the centre, is it not the opinion of your self, Aristotle, Ptolomy, and all their sectators?

References

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

sectātor m (genitive sectātōris, feminine sectātrīx); third declension

  1. follower, attendant, adherent

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative sectātor sectātōrēs
genitive sectātōris sectātōrum
dative sectātōrī sectātōribus
accusative sectātōrem sectātōrēs
ablative sectātōre sectātōribus
vocative sectātor sectātōrēs

Verb

sectātor

  1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of sector

Further reading

  • sectator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • sectator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sectator 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)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sectateur.

Noun

sectator m (plural sectatori, feminine equivalent sectatoare)

  1. sectator

Declension

singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative sectator sectatorul sectatori sectatorii
genitive-dative sectator sectatorului sectatori sectatorilor
vocative sectatorule sectatorilor

References

  • sectator in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN