expilator
English
Etymology
From Latin expīlātor, from expīlō.
Noun
expilator (plural expilators)
- (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
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛk.spiːˈɫaː.tɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ek.spiˈlaː.t̪or]
Etymology 1
expīlō (“to pillage, plunder”) + -tor
Noun
expīlātor m (genitive expīlātōris); third declension
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
- 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.