lacerator

Latin

Etymology

From lacerō (“lacerate, tear”) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /la.keˈraː.tor/, [ɫ̪äkɛˈräːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /la.t͡ʃeˈra.tor/, [lät͡ʃeˈräːt̪or]

Noun

lacerātor m (genitive lacerātōris); third declension

1. a lacerater, mangler

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	lacerātor	lacerātōrēs
genitive	lacerātōris	lacerātōrum
dative	lacerātōrī	lacerātōribus
accusative	lacerātōrem	lacerātōrēs
ablative	lacerātōre	lacerātōribus
vocative	lacerātor	lacerātōrēs

Related terms

• lacer
• lacerābilis
• lacerātiō
• lacerātrix
• lacerō

References

• “lacerator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lacerator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• lacerator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.