plasmator

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin plasmātor.

Noun

plasmator (plural plasmators)

1. (obsolete) One who forms or creates; creator.
   • 1653, François Rabelais, translated by Thomas Urquhart, Gargantua and Pantagruel:

     the sovereign plasmator, God Almighty

References

• “plasmator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Etymology

From plasmō (“form, mould, fashion”) +‎ -tor, from plasma (“something formed; image, figure”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

plasmātor m (genitive plasmātōris); third declension

1. a former, fashioner, creator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	plasmātor	plasmātōrēs
genitive	plasmātōris	plasmātōrum
dative	plasmātōrī	plasmātōribus
accusative	plasmātōrem	plasmātōrēs
ablative	plasmātōre	plasmātōribus
vocative	plasmātor	plasmātōrēs

Related terms

• plasma
• plasmātiō
• plasmō

Descendants

• French: plasmateur
• Italian: plasmatore
• Spanish: plasmador

References

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