scrutator

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scrūtātor.

Noun

scrutator (plural scrutators)

1. A person who scrutinizes or investigates.

Latin

Etymology

From scrūtō +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /skruːˈtaː.tor/, [s̠kruːˈt̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /skruˈta.tor/, [skruˈt̪äːt̪or]

Noun

scrūtātor m (genitive scrūtātōris); third declension

1. searcher, scrutinizer, examiner, investigator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	scrūtātor	scrūtātōrēs
genitive	scrūtātōris	scrūtātōrum
dative	scrūtātōrī	scrūtātōribus
accusative	scrūtātōrem	scrūtātōrēs
ablative	scrūtātōre	scrūtātōribus
vocative	scrūtātor	scrūtātōrēs

Descendants

• Catalan: escrutador
• → English: scrutator
• Galician: escrutador
• Italian: scrutatore
• Portuguese: escrutador
• Spanish: escrutador

Verb

scrūtātor

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

References

• “scrutator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scrutator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• scrutator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.