comestor

Latin

Etymology

From comedō (“to devour, eat up”) +‎ -tor (“-er”, suffix forming agent nouns).

Noun

comēstor m (genitive comēstōris); third declension

1. glutton

   Synonyms: cataphagās, catīllō, comedō, dēgulātor, edō, gāneō, gluttō, gulō, gumia, helluō, lurcō, mandō, mandūcō, phagō, polyphagus

2. consumer
3. (Medieval Latin) hostage guaranteeing a debt

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	comēstor	comēstōrēs
genitive	comēstōris	comēstōrum
dative	comēstōrī	comēstōribus
accusative	comēstōrem	comēstōrēs
ablative	comēstōre	comēstōribus
vocative	comēstor	comēstōrēs

Related terms

• comedō

References

• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “comestor”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill