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Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From sortior + -tor.
Noun
sortītor m (genitive sortītōris); third declension
- a person who draw lots
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
sortītor
- second/third-person singular future active imperative of sortior
References
- “sortitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sortitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sortitor 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)
- sortitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.