sectator
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sectātor, from sector, frequentative of sequor (“follow”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sɛkˈteɪtə/
Noun
sectator (plural sectators)
- (now rare) A follower, a disciple; someone who follows a particular school; partisan.
- 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, section II:
- But that the Earth, Water, Air, are of a nature equally constituted immoveable about the centre, is it not the opinion of your self, Aristotle, Ptolomy, and all their sectators?
References
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “sectator”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
Anagrams
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /sekˈtaː.tor/, [s̠ɛkˈt̪äːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sekˈta.tor/, [sekˈt̪äːt̪or]
Noun
sectātor m (genitive sectātōris, feminine sectātrīx); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Verb
sectātor
Further reading
- “sectator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sectator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sectator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Etymology
Noun
sectator m (plural sectatori, feminine equivalent sectatoare)
Declension
References
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