imbricitor

Latin

Etymology

imber (“rain, rain-cloud, shower”) +‎ citor, the latter from cieō +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /imˈbri.ki.tor/, [ɪmˈbrɪkɪt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /imˈbri.t͡ʃi.tor/, [imˈbriːt͡ʃit̪or]

Noun

imbricitor m (genitive imbricitōris, feminine imbricitrīx); third declension

1. rain-bringer, storm-bringer, shower-sender
   • Apuleius Madaurensis, De Mundo 37.9:

     Et cum sit unus, pluribus nominibus cietur, specierum multitudine, quarum diversitate fit multiformis vis. Idem ab iuvando Iuppiter dictus, quem Ζῆνα Graeci, quod vitae nostrae auctor sit, rectissime appellant. Saturnum etiam illi Κρόνον, quasi χρόνον quendam, incoeptum ab origine, interminum ad finem tempus appellant. Fulgurator et tonitrualis et fulminator, etiam imbricitor, et item dicitur serenator; et plures eum frugiferum vocant, multi urbis custodem, alii hospitalem, amicalem et omnium officiorum nominibus appellant.

     And though he be one, he is called upon by many names, and in a multitude of forms, by whose diversity his power is made manifold. From 'iuvare' he is called Juppiter, whom the Greeks rightly call Ζῆνα, because he is the author of our life. Saturn also they call Κρόνον, as if from χρόνον, the beginning from the origin, boundless to the end of time. Lightninger and Thunderer and lightning-hurler, also storm-bringer, and also bringer of clear weather; and many call him fruitful, many "guardian of the city", others call him "hospitable", "friendly", and the names of all his offices.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	imbricitor	imbricitōrēs
genitive	imbricitōris	imbricitōrum
dative	imbricitōrī	imbricitōribus
accusative	imbricitōrem	imbricitōrēs
ablative	imbricitōre	imbricitōribus
vocative	imbricitor	imbricitōrēs

Adjective

imbricitor (genitive imbricitōris); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. rain-bringing
   • Quintus Ennius, Annales 17.433:

     concurrunt veluti venti, quom spiritus Austri
     imbricitor Aquiloque suo cum flamine contra
     indu mari magno fluctus extollere certant

     They dash together like the winds, when the rain-bringing breath of the South Wind and the North Wind with its own opposing gust compete to raise up waves in the great sea

Declension

Declined like the noun, with masculine forms only. Feminine forms are supplied by imbricitrīx.

References

• imbricitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• imbricitor in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• “imbricitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press