secutor
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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From sequor (“I follow”) + -tor (“-er”).
Noun
secūtor m (genitive secūtōris, feminine secūtrīx or sequūtrīx); third declension
- follower, pursuer
- secutor (a kind of light-armed gladiator who fought with the net-fighters retiarii (pursuing them))
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | secūtor | secūtōrēs |
| Genitive | secūtōris | secūtōrum |
| Dative | secūtōrī | secūtōribus |
| Accusative | secūtōrem | secūtōrēs |
| Ablative | secūtōre | secūtōribus |
| Vocative | secūtor | secūtōrēs |
Descendants
References
- “secutor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “secutor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- secutor 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)
- secutor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “secutor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers