vindicator
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vindicātor, equivalent to vindicate + -or.
Noun
vindicator (plural vindicators)
- A person who vindicates.
- 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 251:
- Little thought the good-natured vindicator of Lady Anne's offspring (to all of whom he was sincerely attached) that he had drawn upon one that which she held to be the great misfortune of her life a short time afterwards.
Etymology 1
Noun
vindicātor m (genitive vindicātōris); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | vindicātor | vindicātōrēs |
| Genitive | vindicātōris | vindicātōrum |
| Dative | vindicātōrī | vindicātōribus |
| Accusative | vindicātōrem | vindicātōrēs |
| Ablative | vindicātōre | vindicātōribus |
| Vocative | vindicātor | vindicātōrēs |
Descendants
- Catalan: venjador
- French: vengeur
- Italian: vendicatore
- Portuguese: vingador
- Romanian: vindecător
- Sicilian: vinnicaturi
- Spanish: vengador
Etymology 2
Verb forms.
Verb
vindicātor
References
- “vindicator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vindicator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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