visitator

English

Etymology

From Latin vīsitātor.

Noun

visitator (plural visitators)

1. (Catholicism) An apostolic visitor.

Related terms

• visitatrix

Anagrams

• vitiators

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch visitator, from Latin vīsitātor (“visitor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vi.siˈta.tɔr]
• Hyphenation: vi‧si‧ta‧tor

Noun

visitator (plural visitator-visitator)

1. (Catholicism) apostolic visitor.

Further reading

• “visitator” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Noun

visitator (plural visitatores)

1. visitor (someone who visits)

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯iː.siˈtaː.tor/, [u̯iːs̠ɪˈt̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vi.siˈta.tor/, [vis̬iˈt̪äːt̪or]

Etymology 1

Derived from vīsitō (“I go to see, visit”) +‎ -ātor (“-er”, agent noun suffix).

Noun

vīsitātor m (genitive vīsitātōris); third declension

1. (Late Latin) (frequent) visitor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vīsitātor	vīsitātōrēs
genitive	vīsitātōris	vīsitātōrum
dative	vīsitātōrī	vīsitātōribus
accusative	vīsitātōrem	vīsitātōrēs
ablative	vīsitātōre	vīsitātōribus
vocative	vīsitātor	vīsitātōrēs

Descendants

• → English: visitator
• Italian: visitatore

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

vīsitātor

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

References

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