expilator

English

Etymology

From Latin expīlātor, from expīlō.

Noun

expilator (plural expilators)

  1. (obsolete) One who plunders or pillages.
    • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 26:
      for which the most barbarous Expilators found the most civill Rhetorick

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

expīlō (to pillage, plunder) +‎ -tor

Noun

expīlātor m (genitive expīlātōris); third declension

  1. pillager, plunderer
Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative expīlātor expīlātōrēs
genitive expīlātōris expīlātōrum
dative expīlātōrī expīlātōribus
accusative expīlātōrem expīlātōrēs
ablative expīlātōre expīlātōribus
vocative expīlātor expīlātōrēs

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

expīlātor

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

References

  • expilator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • expilator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • expilator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.