lociservator

Latin

Etymology

From locus (“place”) +‎ servātor (“observer”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /lo.ki.serˈu̯aː.tor/, [ɫ̪ɔkɪs̠ɛrˈu̯äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /lo.t͡ʃi.serˈva.tor/, [lot͡ʃis̬erˈväːt̪or]

Noun

lociservātor m (genitive lociservātōris); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin, in general use) a delegate, deputy, representative, stand-in, or substitute
2. (Medieval Latin, in specific historical use, in the Kingdom of the Lombards) an official subordinate to a count or duke

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	lociservātor	lociservātōrēs
genitive	lociservātōris	lociservātōrum
dative	lociservātōrī	lociservātōribus
accusative	lociservātōrem	lociservātōrēs
ablative	lociservātōre	lociservātōribus
vocative	lociservātor	lociservātōrēs

Synonyms

• (in the Kingdom of the Lombards: a subordinate of a count or duke): locipositus

Related terms

• lociservātūra

References

• lociservator 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)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “lociservator”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 618/2