ultor

From ultus (“avenged”, past participle of ulcīscor) +‎ -tor (“-er”, agent noun suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈul.tor/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈul.tor/,

ultor m (genitive ultōris, feminine ultrīx); third declension

1. avenger, punisher
2. epithet of Mars

Third-declension noun.

• ulcīscor
• ultiō
• ultrīx
• ultus

• Italian: ultore
• Spanish: ultor

ultor (genitive ultōris); third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem)

1. (masculine) avenging, vengeful, punishing
   • Propertius, Elegiae 4.1b.115:

     Nauplius ultores sub noctem porrigit ignes, / et natat exuviis Graecia pressa suis.

     • 1990 translation by G. P. Goold

       Nauplius beckons with his vengeful beacon at nightfall, and Greece is shipwrecked, sunk by its booty.

Declined like the noun, with masculine forms only. Feminine forms and neuter plural forms are supplied by ultrīx.

• “ultor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ultor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ultor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “ultor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ultor”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti

Perhaps from a British dialect form of Latin vultur (“vulture”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈul.tor/,

ultor m

1. vulture