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dominator
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English
Alternative forms
- dominatour (obsolete)
Pronunciation
Noun
dominator (plural dominators)
- One who, or that which, dominates.
- Coordinate term: subordinator
- (BDSM, uncommon) A male dominant.
- 1988 May 7, Jeff Winters, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 13:
- Young looking 30 yr old dominator, but might bend (flexible) for the right person.
- (graph theory) A node that dominates another.
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Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [dɔ.mɪˈnaː.tɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [d̪o.miˈnaː.t̪or]
Noun
dominātor m (genitive dominātōris); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
- Catalan: dominador
- French: dominateur
- Galician: dominador
- Italian: dominatore
- Portuguese: dominador
- Romanian: dominator
- Spanish: dominador
Verb
dominātor
References
- “dominator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dominator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “dominator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French dominateur, from Latin dominator. Equivalent to domina + -tor.
Adjective
dominator m or n (feminine singular dominatoare, masculine plural dominatori, feminine and neuter plural dominatoare)
Declension
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