consummator

Borrowed from Latin cōnsummātor, by surface analysis, consummate +‎ -or.

consummator (plural consummators)

1. One who consummates.
   • 1855, Aeschylus, The Tragedies of Aeschylus‎^[1], Whittaker, pages 16-17:

     Aeschylus was, indeed, pre-eminently a religious poet. He derived from the teaching of his great master Pythagoras a sublime conception of the divine attributes, — the mysterious and inscrutable ways, the irresistible will, the inviolable majesty of God. He shrinks from impiety as the fertile source of every woe. But most especially does he dwell on the Omnipotence and the Justice of the Supreme Being. On these two points hangs a large portion of his theology; the helplessness of man, his inevitable fall sooner or later, when under the wrath of heaven ; the dependence of every event on the will of Zeus ; the facility with which he works out his own counsels ; the certainty of sin being ultimately punished. Zeus knows no superior, but only that Eternal Destiny which even he is compelled to obey. He is the Consummator (τέλειος) of all things with this reservation, that Fate or Necessity must have preordained the event which he brings to pass. "What is there," the poet asks, "which is accomplished to mortals without thee!".

   • 1922, “The Birth of Europe”, in Ellie Schleussner, transl., The Evolution of Love‎^[2], translation of Die Drei Stufen der Erotik by Emil Lucka:

     The time was ripe and the consummators came: Dante in the south, Eckhart in the countries north of the Alps.

   • 1971, Arthur Eaglefield Hull, Music: Classical, Romantic & Modern‎^[3], Books for Libraries Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 25 June 2020, page 6:

     A great figure like Bach faces both ways, towards the past as well as to the future; others, like Palestrina, gather up in themselves all the efforts of the preceding generations leading up to them; they are the consummators of an era. And other revolutionary spirits, like Philip Emmanuel Bach, Mussorgsky and Stravinsky, will only look boldly forward from some lonely outpost; inventors and prophets, they are just as important and indispensable to music as the great consummators of the eras themselves.

From cōnsummō + -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kõː.sʊmˈmaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kon.sumˈmaː.tor]

cōnsummātor m (genitive cōnsummātōris); third declension

1. completer, finisher

Third-declension noun.

cōnsummātor

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

• “consummator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "consummator", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “consummator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.