propitiator

English

Etymology

From the Latin propitiātor.

Noun

propitiator (plural propitiators)

1. One who propitiates or appeases.

Translations

one who pacifies

• Bulgarian: умиротворител (bg) m (umirotvoritel)
• Dutch: pacificator m
• French: pacificateur (fr) m
• Greek: ειρηνευτής (el) m (eirineftís)
• Italian: pacificatore (it), paciere (it) m
• Spanish: pacificador (es) m
• Swedish: lugnare (sv) c

Latin

Etymology

propitiāt-, propitiō (“I propitiate”, “I sooth”) +‎ -tor (forms agent nouns)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pro.pi.tiˈaː.tor/, [prɔpɪt̪iˈäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pro.pit.t͡siˈa.tor/, [propit̪ː͡s̪iˈäːt̪or]

Noun

propitiātor m (genitive propitiātōris); third declension

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) a propitiator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	propitiātor	propitiātōrēs
genitive	propitiātōris	propitiātōrum
dative	propitiātōrī	propitiātōribus
accusative	propitiātōrem	propitiātōrēs
ablative	propitiātōre	propitiātōribus
vocative	propitiātor	propitiātōrēs

Derived terms

• propitiātōrius

Descendants

• English: propitiator
• Italian: propiziatore
• Spanish: propiciador

References

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

Verb

propitiātor

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