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English
Etymology
From spoliate + -or.
Pronunciation
Noun
spoliator (plural spoliators)
- (obsolete) One who spoliates.
1887, William Crossing, The Ancient Crosses of Dartmoor, Exeter: James G Commin, page 57:But the rude spoliator came, and that which time had spared, speedily fell beneath his hand. The contemplation of the ruins to-day, cannot but cause regret and sorrow to the lover of our antiquities, and a feeling of indignation will not allow itself to be suppressed, when we reflect upon the wanton destruction of this ancient sepulchre.
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
spoliātor m (genitive spoliātōris, feminine spoliātrīx); third declension
- robber, pillager, plunderer, spoiler
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Verb
spoliātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of spoliō
References
- “spoliator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “spoliator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- spoliator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French spoliateur.
Noun
spoliator m (plural spoliatori, feminine equivalent spoliatoare)
- spoliator
Declension