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divinator

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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

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

dīvīnātor m (genitive dīvīnātōris); third declension

  1. soothsayer; seer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

More information singular, plural ...

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.
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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French divinatoire.

Adjective

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

  1. divinatory

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
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