secutor

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Alternative forms

• sequūtor

Etymology

From sequor (“I follow”) +‎ -tor (“-er”).

Noun

secūtor m (genitive secūtōris, feminine secūtrīx); third declension

1. follower, pursuer
2. (gladiatorial combat) secutor (a kind of light-armed gladiator who fought with the net-fighters retiarii (pursuing them))

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	secūtor	secūtōrēs
genitive	secūtōris	secūtōrum
dative	secūtōrī	secūtōribus
accusative	secūtōrem	secūtōrēs
ablative	secūtōre	secūtōribus
vocative	secūtor	secūtōrēs

Descendants

• Old French: suytour
  • → Middle English: sutour
    • English: suitor

References

• “secutor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “secutor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "secutor", 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)
• secutor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “secutor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers