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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, feminine vulgātrīx); third declension
- divulger, one that divulges information, makes something well-known
Vulgator secretorum non credi potest- The divulger of secrets is not able to be trusted
1844, Jacques-Paul Migne, Patrologiae cursus completus sive biblioteca universalis, integra, uniformis, commoda, oeconomica, omnium SS. Patrum, doctorum scriptorumque eccelesiasticorum qui ab aevo apostolico ad usque Innocentii III tempora floruerunt (quotation in Latin; overall work in Latin), Cambridge, Massachusetts: Parisiis, pages 171-172:Haec est natio, cujus ante te fuit omne quod voluit: in qua titulos obtinuit, qui emit adversariorum sangulne dignitatem: apud quam campus est vulgator natalium- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
5th-century CE, Saint Jerome, Sancti Eusebii Hieronymi Stridonensis presbyteri Operum (quotation in Latin; overall work in Latin), published 1766, pages 145-146:
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.