ablutor

Latin

Etymology

From abluō (“wash off, cleanse”) +‎ -tor, from ab (“from, away from”) + luō (“wash, cleanse”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [abˈɫuː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [abˈluː.tor]

Noun

ablūtor m (genitive ablūtōris); third declension

1. a person who washes off, purifies or cleanses.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ablūtor	ablūtōrēs
genitive	ablūtōris	ablūtōrum
dative	ablūtōrī	ablūtōribus
accusative	ablūtōrem	ablūtōrēs
ablative	ablūtōre	ablūtōribus
vocative	ablūtor	ablūtōrēs

Related terms

• abluō
• ablūtiō
• ablūtus
• abluvium

Descendants

• Portuguese: abluto

References

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