prevaricator

English

Etymology

From prevaricate +‎ -or or Latin praevaricator: compare French prévaricateur.

Noun

prevaricator (plural prevaricators)

1. One who prevaricates.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 214:

     It was evident he took me for a perfectly shameless prevaricator.

2. (historical) An orator at the University of Cambridge fulfilling a similar function to the terrae filius at Oxford.

Translations

one who prevaricates

• Dutch: draaier (nl), veinzer (nl)
• French: prévaricateur (fr) m, prévaricatrice (fr) f
• German: Tatsachenverdreher m, Schönredner m, Wahrheitsverdreher m, Faktenverfälscher m
• Plautdietsch: Läajna m
• Polish: krętacz (pl) m, krętaczka (pl) f, lawirant m, lawirantka f
• Portuguese: prevaricador m

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [prɛ.waː.rɪˈkaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pre.va.riˈkaː.tor]

Noun

prevāricātor m (genitive prevāricātōris); third declension

1. alternative form of praevāricātor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	prevāricātor	prevāricātōrēs
genitive	prevāricātōris	prevāricātōrum
dative	prevāricātōrī	prevāricātōribus
accusative	prevāricātōrem	prevāricātōrēs
ablative	prevāricātōre	prevāricātōribus
vocative	prevāricātor	prevāricātōrēs

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French prévaricateur, or a learned borrowing from Latin praevaricator.

Adjective

prevaricator m or n (feminine singular prevaricatoare, masculine plural prevaricatori, feminine/neuter plural prevaricatoare)

1. prevaricating

Declension

Declension of prevaricator

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	prevaricator		prevaricatoare	prevaricatori	prevaricatoare
	definite	prevaricatorul		prevaricatoarea	prevaricatorii	prevaricatoarele
genitive- dative	indefinite	prevaricator		prevaricatoare	prevaricatori	prevaricatoare
	definite	prevaricatorului		prevaricatoarei	prevaricatorilor	prevaricatoarelor

Noun

prevaricator m (plural prevaricatori)

1. prevaricator

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	prevaricator	prevaricatorul	prevaricatori	prevaricatorii
genitive-dative	prevaricator	prevaricatorului	prevaricatori	prevaricatorilor
vocative	prevaricatorule		prevaricatorilor