aemulator

Latin

Etymology

From aemulor (“I rival, emulate”) +‎ -tor (“-er”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ae̯.muˈlaː.tor/, [äe̯mʊˈɫ̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.muˈla.tor/, [emuˈläːt̪or]

Noun

aemulātor m (genitive aemulātōris, feminine aemulātrīx); third declension

1. emulator, imitator
2. rival

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	aemulātor	aemulātōrēs
genitive	aemulātōris	aemulātōrum
dative	aemulātōrī	aemulātōribus
accusative	aemulātōrem	aemulātōrēs
ablative	aemulātōre	aemulātōribus
vocative	aemulātor	aemulātōrēs

Descendants

• English: emulator
• French: émulateur
• Galician: emulador
• Italian: emulatore
• Portuguese: emulador
• Romanian: emulator
• Spanish: emulador

Verb

aemulātor

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of aemulor

References

• “aemulator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aemulator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aemulator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.