joculator

English

Etymology

From Latin joculātus. Doublet of juggler and jongleur.

Noun

joculator (plural joculators)

1. (obsolete) A jester; a joker.
   • '1801, Joseph Strutt, The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England:

     The joculators were sometimes excellent tumblers; yet, generally speaking, I believe that vaulting, tumbling, and balancing, were not exectued by the chieftan of the gleeman's company, but by some of his confederates

Synonyms

• joculatrix (specifically female)

References

• “joculator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Noun

joculātor m (genitive joculātōris); third declension

1. Alternative form of ioculātor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	joculātor	joculātōrēs
genitive	joculātōris	joculātōrum
dative	joculātōrī	joculātōribus
accusative	joculātōrem	joculātōrēs
ablative	joculātōre	joculātōribus
vocative	joculātor	joculātōrēs

References

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