existimator

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛk.siːs.tɪˈmaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eɡ.zis.tiˈmaː.tor]

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Latin ex-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey-?

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éyos

Proto-Italic *ajos

Proto-Italic *aos

Latin aes

Proto-Indo-European *temh₁-der.

Latin *temos

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Proto-Indo-European *h₂eys-der.?

Old Latin aestumō

Latin aestimō

Latin exīstimō

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Latin exīstimātor

From exīstimō (“to suppose, consider”) + -tor.

Noun

exīstimātor m (genitive exīstimātōris); third declension

1. judge, critic

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	exīstimātor	exīstimātōrēs
genitive	exīstimātōris	exīstimātōrum
dative	exīstimātōrī	exīstimātōribus
accusative	exīstimātōrem	exīstimātōrēs
ablative	exīstimātōre	exīstimātōribus
vocative	exīstimātor	exīstimātōrēs

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

exīstimātor

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

References

• “existimator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “existimator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “existimator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) a (competent, intelligent, subtle) critic: existimator (doctus, intellegens, acerrimus)