regnator

Latin

Etymology

From rēgnō (“to rule”) +‎ -tor (“-er”, suffix forming agent nouns).

Noun

rēgnātor m (genitive rēgnātōris); third declension

1. king, ruler
   • Aeneid, Vergil, IV:269

     regnator, caelum et terras qui numine torquet.

     king, who bends heaven and earth to his will.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	rēgnātor	rēgnātōrēs
genitive	rēgnātōris	rēgnātōrum
dative	rēgnātōrī	rēgnātōribus
accusative	rēgnātōrem	rēgnātōrēs
ablative	rēgnātōre	rēgnātōribus
vocative	rēgnātor	rēgnātōrēs

Related terms

• rēgnātrīx

Verb

rēgnātor

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

References

• “regnator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “regnator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• regnator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.