divinator

From Latin dīvīnātor. See divination.

divinator (plural divinators)

1. One who practices or claims to practice divination; a diviner.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

     Of this number are all superstitious idolaters, ethnicks, Mahometans, Jewes, heretiques, enthusiasts, divinators, prophets, sectaries, and schismatiques

• “divinator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From dīvīnō (“to foresee; to foretell”) + -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [diː.wiːˈnaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [di.viˈnaː.tor]

dīvīnātor m (genitive dīvīnātōris); third declension

1. soothsayer; seer

Third-declension noun.

dīvīnātor

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

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

Borrowed from French divinatoire.

divinator m or n (feminine singular divinatoare, masculine plural divinatori, feminine/neuter plural divinatoare)

1. divinatory