adulator

Borrowed from Latin adūlātor.

adulator (plural adulators)

1. One who lavishes excessive praises or flattery; one who adulates.

• laudator

From adūlor (“to fawn upon, flatter”) + -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.duːˈɫaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.duˈlaː.tor]

adūlātor m (genitive adūlātōris); third declension

1. a low cringing flatterer; a sycophant

Third-declension noun.

• adūlātorius

• English: adulator
• French: adulateur
• Italian: adulatore
• → Polish: (Middle Polish) adulator (learned)
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Romagnol: aduladôr, adulatôr
• Portuguese: adulador
• Spanish: adulador

adūlātor

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of adūlor

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

• laudātor

Learned borrowing from Latin adūlātor. First attested in 1560.

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /a.duˈlɒ.tɔr/

adulátor m animacy unattested

1. (Middle Polish) adulator

   Synonyms: pochlebca, służalec

• Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “adulator”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

Borrowed from French adulateur.

adulator m (plural adulatori, feminine equivalent adulatoare)

1. worshiper