novator

English

Noun

novator (plural novators)

1. (obsolete, rare) An innovator.
   • 1864 October, The Journal of sacred literature:

     We need scarcely allude here to works of art: in the sphere of poetry and of fiction, generally, the decay is so universally admitted, now, that the boldest novators would not attempt to contradict it.

   • 1879, The Dublin Review, volume 84, page 540:

     France has enjoyed the sad privilege of witnessing twice in her history, at an interval of two or three centuries, a coup d'état directed against her institutions which novators have endeavoured to destroy and to blot out.

Anagrams

• Vorotan

Latin

Verb

novātor

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

References

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French novateur, from Latin novator.

Adjective

novator m or n (feminine singular novatoare, masculine plural novatori, feminine and neuter plural novatoare)

1. innovative

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	novator		novatoare		novatori	novatoare
	definite	novatorul		novatoarea		novatorii	novatoarele
genitive- dative	indefinite	novator		novatoare		novatori	novatoare
	definite	novatorului		novatoarei		novatorilor	novatoarelor