paritor

English

Etymology

Compare apparitor and Latin paritor (“servant, attendant”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæɹɪtə(ɹ)/

Noun

paritor (plural paritors)

1. Obsolete form of apparitor.
   • 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act IV, page 45:

     […] you ſhall be ſummon'd by an hoſt of Paratours;

References

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

Anagrams

• Airport, airport

Latin

Verb

paritor

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

References

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