venator
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vēnātor (“hunter”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /və.na.tɔʁ/
Noun
venator m (plural venatores)
- (Ancient Rome) gladiator specialized in wild animal hunts
- 2021, Jean-Yves Ferri, Didier Conrad, Astérix et le Griffon [Asterix and the Griffin] (Asterix), Vanves: Les Éditions Albert René, →ISBN, page 9:
- Et le venator vedette Jolicursus.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Latin
Etymology
From vēnor (“I hunt”) + -tor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [weːˈnaː.tɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [veˈnaː.t̪or]
Noun
vēnātor m (genitive vēnātōris, feminine vēnātrīx); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | vēnātor | vēnātōrēs |
| genitive | vēnātōris | vēnātōrum |
| dative | vēnātōrī | vēnātōribus |
| accusative | vēnātōrem | vēnātōrēs |
| ablative | vēnātōre | vēnātōribus |
| vocative | vēnātor | vēnātōrēs |
Descendants
- Old Francoprovençal: venaor
- Franco-Provençal: venaor
- Old French: veneor
- French: veneur
- Walloon: vineu'
- Portuguese: veador
- Romanian: vânător
- Spanish: venador
- Italian: venatore
References
- “venator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “venator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- venator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.