petitor

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

petitor (plural petitors)

1. (law) The claimant or plaintiff in ancient legal systems.

Anagrams

• Perotti, Prottie, pottier, prottie, tiptoer, top tier, top-tier

Latin

Etymology

petō +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /peˈtiː.tor/, [pɛˈt̪iːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /peˈti.tor/, [peˈt̪iːt̪or]

Noun

petītor m (genitive petītōris); third declension

1. seeker, striver
2. applicant, candidate
3. claimant, plaintiff
4. suitor, wooer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	petītor	petītōrēs
genitive	petītōris	petītōrum
dative	petītōrī	petītōribus
accusative	petītōrem	petītōrēs
ablative	petītōre	petītōribus
vocative	petītor	petītōrēs

Verb

petitor

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

References

• “petitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “petitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• petitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “petitor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “petitor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin