flator
See also: flätor
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈflaː.tor/, [ˈfɫ̪äːt̪ɔr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfla.tor/, [ˈfläːt̪or]
Etymology 1
From flō (“blow”) + -tor (agentive noun suffix), i.e. “blower”.
Noun
flātor m (genitive flātōris); third declension
- flautist
- Synonym: tībīcen
- c. 2nd century, Sextus Pompeius Festus, De verborum significatione 39:
- Flator tibicen.
- caster (of metal), coiner
- c. 2nd century CE, Sextus Pomponius, quoted in Digest 1.2.2.30:
- Constituti sunt eodem tempore et quattuorviri qui curam viarum agerent, et triumviri monetales aeris argenti auri flatores […]
- At the same time there were also established the quattuorviri who are to take care of the roads, and the triumviri monetales, those who cast copper, silver, and gold […]
- Constituti sunt eodem tempore et quattuorviri qui curam viarum agerent, et triumviri monetales aeris argenti auri flatores […]
- c. 2nd century CE, Sextus Pomponius, quoted in Digest 1.2.2.30:
- (Medieval Latin) bellows-worker
- 1333, P.R.O. Ministers’ Accounts; republished as “Some Fourteenth-Century Accounts of Ironworks at Tudeley, Kent”, in Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity, volume 63, 1913, page 157:
- In mercede anteriorum flatorum […]
- In recompense of the principal bellows-workers […]
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- (New Latin, generally) blower, that which blows
- 1671, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Hypothesis Physica nova […] ; republished as C. I. Gerhardt, editor, Leibnizes mathematische Schriften, volume 2, 1860, page 24:
- […] denique ventorum flatorum, caeterorumque aquae aërisque motuum ordinariorum phaenomena non difficulter deducuntur.
- […] and lastly the phenomena of those things that blow the winds, and otherwise of the regular movements of water and air, are not difficult to deduce.
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Usage notes
The general sense of “blower” is etymologically transparent, and likely to have been used in Classical times, but is only directly attested in New Latin.
Inflection
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | flātor | flātōrēs |
Genitive | flātōris | flātōrum |
Dative | flātōrī | flātōribus |
Accusative | flātōrem | flātōrēs |
Ablative | flātōre | flātōribus |
Vocative | flātor | flātōrēs |
Descendants
- Vulgar Latin: *flātor (“odour, that which blows”)
- Italian: fiatore
- Old French: flaour (“smell, odour”)
- → Middle English: flavour
- English: flavour, flavor
- → Middle English: flavour
Verb
flātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of flō
References
- “flator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- flator 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)
- flator in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, volume 1, 8th edition, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
- flator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “flator”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, OCLC 1369101
Swedish
Noun
flator
- indefinite plural of flata.