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Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
vulgātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of vulgō
Etymology 2
From vulgō (to make known, public) + -tor (masculine agent noun forming suffix)
Noun
vulgātor m (genitive vulgātōris); third declension
- divulger, one that divulges information, makes something well-known
16 BCE,
Ovid,
The Loves 3.7:
- sic aret mediis taciti vulgator in undis pomaque, quae nullo tempore tangat, habet.
- Thus, in the midstream the divulger of secrets thirsts and holds fruit which at no time he can touch.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “vulgator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vulgator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.