divinator

English

Etymology

From Latin . See divination.

Noun

divinator (plural divinators)

1. One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

     Of this number are all superstitious idolaters, ethnicks, Mahometans, Jewes, heretiques, enthusiasts, divinators, prophets, sectaries, and schismatiques

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “divinator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Etymology

From dīvīnō (“to foresee; to foretell”) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /diː.u̯iːˈnaː.tor/, [d̪iːu̯iːˈnäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /di.viˈna.tor/, [d̪iviˈnäːt̪or]

Noun

dīvīnātor m (genitive dīvīnātōris); third declension

1. soothsayer; seer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dīvīnātor	dīvīnātōrēs
genitive	dīvīnātōris	dīvīnātōrum
dative	dīvīnātōrī	dīvīnātōribus
accusative	dīvīnātōrem	dīvīnātōrēs
ablative	dīvīnātōre	dīvīnātōribus
vocative	dīvīnātor	dīvīnātōrēs

Verb

dīvīnātor

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

References

• “divinator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• divinator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French divinatoire.

Adjective

divinator m or n (feminine singular divinatoare, masculine plural divinatori, feminine and neuter plural divinatoare)

1. divinatory

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	divinator		divinatoare		divinatori	divinatoare
	definite	divinatorul		divinatoarea		divinatorii	divinatoarele
genitive- dative	indefinite	divinator		divinatoare		divinatori	divinatoare
	definite	divinatorului		divinatoarei		divinatorilor	divinatoarelor