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Latin
Etymology
The noun is from vāstō (“lay waste to, destroy”) + -tor (agent noun suffix).
Noun
vāstātor m (genitive vāstātōris); third declension
- destroyer (person), ravager
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Verb
vāstātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of vāstō
References
- “vastator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vastator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vastator 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)
- vastator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.