assentator

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin assentātor, from assentari (“to assent constantly”).

Noun

assentator (plural assentators)

1. (archaic) An obsequious flatterer; a yes man.

References

• “assentator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Alternative forms

• adsentātor

Etymology

From assentor +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /as.senˈtaː.tor/, [äs̠ːɛn̪ˈt̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /as.senˈta.tor/, [äsːen̪ˈt̪äːt̪or]

Noun

assentātor m (genitive assentātōris, feminine assentātrīx); third declension

1. yes man
2. flatterer, toady

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	assentātor	assentātōrēs
genitive	assentātōris	assentātōrum
dative	assentātōrī	assentātōribus
accusative	assentātōrem	assentātōrēs
ablative	assentātōre	assentātōribus
vocative	assentātor	assentātōrēs

Verb

assentātor

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

References

• “assentator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• assentator 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)
• assentator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to turn a deaf ear to, to open one's ears to..: aures claudere, patefacere (e.g. veritati, assentatoribus)