potator
English
Etymology
From Latin pōtātor.
Noun
potator (plural potators)
- (obsolete, rare) A drinker.
- 1834–1847, Robert Southey, The Doctor, &c., volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, OCLC 1179713:
- Barnabee , the illustrious potator
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Related terms
- potable
- potation
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 potator in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- portato, taproot
Latin
Verb
pōtātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of pōtō
Noun
pōtātor m (genitive pōtātōris); third declension
- drinker
- tippler
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | pōtātor | pōtātōrēs |
| Genitive | pōtātōris | pōtātōrum |
| Dative | pōtātōrī | pōtātōribus |
| Accusative | pōtātōrem | pōtātōrēs |
| Ablative | pōtātōre | pōtātōribus |
| Vocative | pōtātor | pōtātōrēs |
References
- “potator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- potator 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)
- potator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette