medicator

English

Noun

medicator (plural medicators)

1. Any medical appliance.

Derived terms

• self-medicator

Anagrams

• decimator, macrotide, mediocrat, mercadito

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɛ.dɪˈkaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [me.diˈkaː.tor]

Etymology 1

From medicō (“to heal, cure”) +‎ -tor (“-er”, agent noun suffix).

Noun

medicātor m (genitive medicātōris, feminine medicātrīx); third declension

1. (Late Latin) physician

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	medicātor	medicātōrēs
genitive	medicātōris	medicātōrum
dative	medicātōrī	medicātōribus
accusative	medicātōrem	medicātōrēs
ablative	medicātōre	medicātōribus
vocative	medicātor	medicātōrēs

Descendants

• Italian: medicatore

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

medicātor

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

References

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