ostentator

English

Alternative forms

• ostentatour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

Latin

Noun

ostentator (plural ostentators)

1. (archaic) a boaster, ostentatious person
   • 1602, Theorremωn: Or, the Ancient and Most Comfortable Golden-mouth'd Father St. Chrysostome ... Treating on Severall Places of Holy Scripture: Selected and Translated Faithfully ... by J. Willoughbie, page 156:

     […] to bee an ostentatour of mine eloquenice.

Related terms

• ostentation
• ostentatious
• ostentatrix

Anagrams

• tetrastoon

Latin

Etymology

From ostentō +‎ -tor.

Noun

ostentātor m (genitive ostentātōris); third declension

1. boaster, displayer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ostentātor	ostentātōrēs
genitive	ostentātōris	ostentātōrum
dative	ostentātōrī	ostentātōribus
accusative	ostentātōrem	ostentātōrēs
ablative	ostentātōre	ostentātōribus
vocative	ostentātor	ostentātōrēs

Verb

ostentātor

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

References

• “ostentator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ostentator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ostentator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Online Latin dictionary, Olivetti