prevaricator

English

Etymology

From prevaricate +‎ -or or Latin praevaricator: compare French prévaricateur.

Noun

prevaricator (plural prevaricators)

1. One who prevaricates.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 214:

     It was evident he took me for a perfectly shameless prevaricator.

2. (historical) An orator at the University of Cambridge fulfilling a similar function to the terrae filius at Oxford.

Translations

one who prevaricates

• Dutch: draaier (nl), veinzer (nl)
• French: prévaricateur (fr) m, prévaricatrice (fr) f
• German: Tatsachenverdreher m, Schönredner m, Wahrheitsverdreher m, Faktenverfälscher m
• Plautdietsch: Läajna m
• Portuguese: prevaricador m

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pre.u̯aː.riˈkaː.tor/, [preu̯äːrɪˈkäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pre.va.riˈka.tor/, [preväriˈkäːt̪or]

Noun

prevāricātor m (genitive prevāricātōris); third declension

1. Alternative form of praevāricātor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	prevāricātor	prevāricātōrēs
genitive	prevāricātōris	prevāricātōrum
dative	prevāricātōrī	prevāricātōribus
accusative	prevāricātōrem	prevāricātōrēs
ablative	prevāricātōre	prevāricātōribus
vocative	prevāricātor	prevāricātōrēs

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French prévaricateur or Latin praevaricator.

Adjective

prevaricator m or n (feminine singular prevaricatoare, masculine plural prevaricatori, feminine and neuter plural prevaricatoare)

1. prevaricating

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	prevaricator		prevaricatoare		prevaricatori	prevaricatoare
	definite	prevaricatorul		prevaricatoarea		prevaricatorii	prevaricatoarele
genitive- dative	indefinite	prevaricator		prevaricatoare		prevaricatori	prevaricatoare
	definite	prevaricatorului		prevaricatoarei		prevaricatorilor	prevaricatoarelor

Noun

prevaricator m (plural prevaricatori)

1. prevaricator

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	prevaricator	prevaricatorul		prevaricatori	prevaricatorii
genitive-dative	prevaricator	prevaricatorului		prevaricatori	prevaricatorilor
vocative	prevaricatorule			prevaricatorilor