pollinctor

English

Etymology

From Latin pollinctor.

Noun

pollinctor (plural pollinctors)

1. undertaker

References

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

Latin

Etymology

From pollingō (“wash a corpse in preparation for a funeral”) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /polˈliːnk.tor/, [pɔlˈlʲiːŋkt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /polˈlink.tor/, [polˈliŋkt̪or]

Noun

pollīnctor m (genitive pollīnctōris); third declension

1. undertaker; a person who prepared corpses for a funeral.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pollīnctor	pollīnctōrēs
genitive	pollīnctōris	pollīnctōrum
dative	pollīnctōrī	pollīnctōribus
accusative	pollīnctōrem	pollīnctōrēs
ablative	pollīnctōre	pollīnctōribus
vocative	pollīnctor	pollīnctōrēs

References

• “pollinctor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pollinctor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pollinctor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin