novator
English
Noun
novator (plural novators)
- (obsolete, rare) An innovator.
- 1864 October, The Journal of sacred literature:
- We need scarcely allude here to works of art: in the sphere of poetry and of fiction, generally, the decay is so universally admitted, now, that the boldest novators would not attempt to contradict it.
- 1879, The Dublin Review, volume 84, page 540:
- France has enjoyed the sad privilege of witnessing twice in her history, at an interval of two or three centuries, a coup d'état directed against her institutions which novators have endeavoured to destroy and to blot out.
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
novātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of novō
References
- “novator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- novator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French novateur, from Latin novator.
Adjective
novator m or n (feminine singular novatoare, masculine plural novatori, feminine and neuter plural novatoare)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | novator | novatoare | novatori | novatoare | |||
| definite | novatorul | novatoarea | novatorii | novatoarele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | novator | novatoare | novatori | novatoare | |||
| definite | novatorului | novatoarei | novatorilor | novatoarelor | ||||