castigator

See also: câștigător

English

Etymology

From castigate +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

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Noun

castigator (plural castigators)

1. One who castigates.

Synonyms

• censurer
• scolder
• vituperator

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kas.tiːˈɡaː.tor/, [käs̠t̪iːˈɡäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kas.tiˈɡa.tor/, [käst̪iˈɡäːt̪or]

Etymology 1

castīgō (“to rebuke, criticise”) +‎ -tor

Noun

castīgātor m (genitive castīgātōris); third declension

1. a corrector; one who corrects or chastises

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	castīgātor	castīgātōrēs
genitive	castīgātōris	castīgātōrum
dative	castīgātōrī	castīgātōribus
accusative	castīgātōrem	castīgātōrēs
ablative	castīgātōre	castīgātōribus
vocative	castīgātor	castīgātōrēs

Descendants

• Italian: castigatore
• Spanish: castigador
• Portuguese: castigador

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

castīgātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of castīgō

References

• “castigator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “castigator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• castigator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) a stern critic of morals: severus morum castigator