explicator

explicator (plural explicators)

1. One who or that which explicates.

• explicate
• explication
• explicit

From explicō (“to unfurl, unfold, arrange”) + -tor (“-or”, agent-noun forming suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛk.splɪˈkaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ek.spliˈkaː.tor]

explicātor m (genitive explicātōris); third declension

1. an expounder, explainer

   Coordinate term: (female) explicātrīx

Third-declension noun.

explicātor

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

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

Borrowed from French explicateur or Latin explicator.

explicator m or n (feminine singular explicatoare, masculine plural explicatori, feminine/neuter plural explicatoare)

1. explanatory