negator
English
Etymology
From negate + -or, or directly from Latin negātor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nəˈɡeɪtəɹ/
- Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Noun
negator (plural negators)
- One who, or that which, negates.
- (grammar) A word (or other structural element) which causes negation (such as the word not in English).
Translations
word causing negation
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Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From negō (“deny, refuse”) + -tor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [nɛˈɡaː.tɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [neˈɡaː.t̪or]
Noun
negātor m (genitive negātōris); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | negātor | negātōrēs |
| genitive | negātōris | negātōrum |
| dative | negātōrī | negātōribus |
| accusative | negātōrem | negātōrēs |
| ablative | negātōre | negātōribus |
| vocative | negātor | negātōrēs |
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- French: négateur
- Italian: negatore
- Occitan: negador
- Portuguese: negador
- Romanian: negator
- Spanish: negador
References
- “negator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "negator", 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)
- negator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French négateur. By surface analysis, nega + -tor.
Noun
negator m (plural negatori)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | negator | negatorul | negatori | negatorii | |
| genitive-dative | negator | negatorului | negatori | negatorilor | |
| vocative | negatorule | negatorilor | |||
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /něɡaːtor/
- Hyphenation: ne‧ga‧tor
Noun
nègātor m anim (Cyrillic spelling нѐга̄тор)