medicator
English
Noun
medicator (plural medicators)
- Any medical appliance.
Anagrams
- decimator, mercadito
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /me.diˈkaː.tor/, [mɛ.dɪˈkaː.tɔr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /me.diˈka.tor/, [me.diˈkaː.tor]
Etymology 1
From medicō (“to heal, cure”) + -tor (“-er”, agent noun suffix)
Noun
medicātor m (genitive medicātōris); third declension
- (Late Latin) physician
- vocative singular of medicātor
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | medicātor | medicātōrēs |
| Genitive | medicātōris | medicātōrum |
| Dative | medicātōrī | medicātōribus |
| Accusative | medicātōrem | medicātōrēs |
| Ablative | medicātōre | medicātōribus |
| Vocative | medicātor | medicātōrēs |
Descendants
- Italian: medicatore
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
medicātor
- second-person singular future passive imperative of medicō
- third-person singular future passive imperative of medicō
References
- medicator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- medicator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette