incantator

English

Etymology

From incantate +‎ -or.

Noun

incantator (plural incantators)

1. One who works magic by means of incantation.
   • 1973, Muslim ibn Ḥajjāj al-Qushayrī, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, →ISBN:

     We landed at a place where a woman came to us and said: A scorpion has bitten the chief of the tribe. Is there any incantator amongst you?

   • 1856, Charles Hamilton Smith, The natural history of dogs:

     In the metamorphoses of the ancients, the wolf is conspicuous ; and that demons assume its shape, that sorcerers and incantators alternately pass from the human to the lupine form, is believed by the vulgar throughout Asia and Europe; slightly modified it is a common superstition in Abyssinia, and even among the Caffres.

   • 2005, Bayo Ogunjimi, Abdul Rasheed Naʼallah, Introduction to African Oral Literature and Performance, →ISBN, page 159:

     It is obvious that there is a situation of rivalry, since two legs are competing for a road, but the victory of the incantator is ascertained by the fact that flies swarm the excreta.

   • 2012, Melvyn Bragg, The Maid of Buttermere, →ISBN:

     Kitty's mother had been such a black-clothed incantator, full of rhyming recipes for ills and puddings, for scalds and weather and animal magic.

Anagrams

• anticontra

Latin

Etymology

From incantō +‎ -tor.

Noun

incantātor m (genitive incantātōris); third declension

1. enchanter, spellcaster, conjurer, wizard
2. soothsayer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	incantātor	incantātōrēs
genitive	incantātōris	incantātōrum
dative	incantātōrī	incantātōribus
accusative	incantātōrem	incantātōrēs
ablative	incantātōre	incantātōribus
vocative	incantātor	incantātōrēs

Descendants

• Old Galician-Portuguese: encantador
  • Galician: encantador
  • Portuguese: encantador

Verb

incantātor

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

References

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