paritor
English
Etymology
Compare apparitor and Latin paritor (“servant, attendant”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpæɹɪtə(ɹ)/
Noun
paritor (plural paritors)
- Obsolete form of apparitor.
- 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 6484883, Act IV, page 45:
- […] you ſhall be ſummon'd by an hoſt of Paratours;
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for paritor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- Airport, airport
Latin
Verb
paritor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of pariō
References
- “paritor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- paritor 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)
- paritor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette