munitor

Latin

Etymology

From mūniō +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mūnītor m (genitive mūnītōris); third declension

1. a fortification-worker, fortifier
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 7.23:

     Ab Romanis nec opus intermissum—triarii erant, qui muniebant—et ab hastatis principibusque, qui pro munitoribus intenti armatique steterunt, proelium initum.

     The works were not set aside by the Romans—triarii where there to fend off the enemy—and a fight broke out led by the hastati and principes, eager and fully-equiped, who had been placed before the fortification-workers.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	mūnītor	mūnītōrēs
genitive	mūnītōris	mūnītōrum
dative	mūnītōrī	mūnītōribus
accusative	mūnītōrem	mūnītōrēs
ablative	mūnītōre	mūnītōribus
vocative	mūnītor	mūnītōrēs

Verb

mūnītor

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

References

• “munitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “munitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “munitor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.