secutor

Latin

Alternative forms

  • sequūtor

Etymology

From sequor (“I follow”) +‎ -tor (“-er”).

Noun

secūtor m (genitive secūtōris, feminine secūtrīx); third declension

  1. follower, pursuer
  2. (gladiatorial combat) secutor (a kind of light-armed gladiator who fought with the net-fighters retiarii (pursuing them))

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative secūtor secūtōrēs
genitive secūtōris secūtōrum
dative secūtōrī secūtōribus
accusative secūtōrem secūtōrēs
ablative secūtōre secūtōribus
vocative secūtor secūtōrēs

Descendants

  • Old French: suytour

References

  • “secutor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “secutor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "secutor", 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)
  • secutor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “secutor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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