divulgator

From divulgate +‎ -or.

divulgator (plural divulgators)

1. Alternative spelling of divulgater.

   Good journalists can be important divulgators of knowledge

   • 1841, Lancelot Andrews, Ninety-six Sermons by The Right Honourable and Reversed Father in God‎^[3], John Henry Parker, page 482:

     In the tongue wherein Christ spake these words, namely the Syriac, the fittest word that He could find to signify the devil’s name, is a word that signifies divulgator

   • 1970, Martin S. Stabb, Jorge Luis Borges‎^[4] (quotation in English; overall work in English), New York: Twayne Publishers, page 57:

     In short, when his total activity is weighed, his role as a literary divulgator and mentor must be taken into consideration.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [diː.wʊɫˈɡaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪i.vulˈɡaː.t̪or]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

dīvulgātor

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

From divulgō (to make known, public) +‎ -tor (masculine agent noun forming suffix)

dīvulgātor m (genitive dīvulgātōris, feminine dīvulgatrīx); third declension

1. (Late Latin) A divulger, publisher; one who publishes, spreads information^[1][2]
   • 1697, Andréas Carolus, Memorabilia ecclesiastica seculi a nato Christo decimi septimi, juxta annorum seriem notata, et convenienti ordine digesta per Andream Carolum.‎^[5] (in Latin), Johannis Georgii Cottæ, page 352:

     Nachiegalius, divulgator libri de tribus summis impoſtoribus

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Third-declension noun.

• dīvulgātrīx

• divulgator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from French divulgateur, from Latin dīvulgātor. By surface analysis, divulga +‎ -tor.

• IPA^(key): /di.vul.ɡaˈtor/
• Rhymes: -or
• Hyphenation: di‧vul‧ga‧tor

divulgator m (plural divulgatori, feminine equivalent divulgatoare)

1. (rare) divulger (person who discloses)

• “divulgator”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025