viator
See also: Viator
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin viātor (“traveler”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /vaɪˈeɪt.əɹ/, /vaɪˈeɪ.tɔɹ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /vʌɪˈeɪtə/
- Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Noun
viator (plural viators or viatores)
- (rare) A wayfarer, traveler.
- (Can we date this quote?), University of California, Los Angeles. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Viator, Univ of California Press (→ISBN), page 25:
- [The] notion of man as viator in search of perfection in history thus did not function as a legitimating idea for progress.
- 2019, Reinhard Hütter, Bound for Beatitude A Thomistic Study in Eschatology and Ethics, Catholic University of America Press, →ISBN, page 39:
- ... theological virtues and of the whole supernatural life in God on account of sanctifying grace. Aquinas understands the viator in the state of grace in […]
- (Can we date this quote?), University of California, Los Angeles. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Viator, Univ of California Press (→ISBN), page 25:
- (rare, historical) An apparitor, a summoner: a minor Roman official.
- 1882, Titus Livius, Historiarum Romanarum quæ supersunt liber secundus, ed. by H. Belcher, page 198:
- The apparitor tribuni was a viator, whose most important function was that of arrest.
- 1882, Titus Livius, Historiarum Romanarum quæ supersunt liber secundus, ed. by H. Belcher, page 198:
- A person who is subject to a viatical insurance policy or a viatical settlement.
- 2016, Howard M. Friedman, Anderson's Ohio Annotated Securities Law Handbook, 2016 Edition, LexisNexis, →ISBN:
- […] the viators are residents of different states, the viatical settlement […]
- 2020, Deborah Bouchoux; Christine Sgarlata Chung, Business Organizations Law in Focus, Aspen Publishers, →ISBN, page 711:
- Viatical settlement providers purchase the policies from individual viators. Once purchased, these viatical settlement providers typically sell […]
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References
- Websters Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary, 1989.
Latin
Etymology
From viō (“to travel”) + -tor, from via (“road, path”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯iˈaː.tor/, [u̯iˈäːt̪ɔr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /viˈa.tor/, [viˈäːt̪or]
Noun
viātor m (genitive viātōris, feminine viātrīx); third declension
- traveller, wayfarer
- Coordinate term: viātrīx
- messenger
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | viātor | viātōrēs |
| Genitive | viātōris | viātōrum |
| Dative | viātōrī | viātōribus |
| Accusative | viātōrem | viātōrēs |
| Ablative | viātōre | viātōribus |
| Vocative | viātor | viātōrēs |
Related terms
- via
References
- “viator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “viator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- viator 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)
- “viator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “viator”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin