divinator

English

Etymology

From Latin dīvīnātor. See divination.

Noun

divinator (plural divinators)

1. One who practices or claims to practice divination; a diviner.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

     Of this number are all superstitious idolaters, ethnicks, Mahometans, Jewes, heretiques, enthusiasts, divinators, prophets, sectaries, and schismatiques

References

• “divinator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dyew-

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *deywós

Proto-Italic *deiwos

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos

Proto-Italic *-īnos

Proto-Italic *deiwīnos

Latin dīvīnus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin dīvīnō

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Latin dīvīnātor

From dīvīnō (“to foresee; to foretell”) + -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [diː.wiːˈnaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [di.viˈnaː.tor]

Noun

dīvīnātor m (genitive dīvīnātōris); third declension

1. soothsayer; seer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dīvīnātor	dīvīnātōrēs
genitive	dīvīnātōris	dīvīnātōrum
dative	dīvīnātōrī	dīvīnātōribus
accusative	dīvīnātōrem	dīvīnātōrēs
ablative	dīvīnātōre	dīvīnātōribus
vocative	dīvīnātor	dīvīnātōrēs

Verb

dīvīnātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of dīvīnō

References

• “divinator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “divinator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

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French divination

French -oire

French divinatoirebor.

Romanian divinator

Borrowed from French divinatoire.

Adjective

divinator m or n (feminine singular divinatoare, masculine plural divinatori, feminine/neuter plural divinatoare)

1. divinatory

Declension

Declension of divinator

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	divinator		divinatoare	divinatori	divinatoare
	definite	divinatorul		divinatoarea	divinatorii	divinatoarele
genitive- dative	indefinite	divinator		divinatoare	divinatori	divinatoare
	definite	divinatorului		divinatoarei	divinatorilor	divinatoarelor