mactator

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Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin mactus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin mactō

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Latin mactātor

From mactō (“slaughter, kill”) + -tor.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [makˈtaː.tɔr]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [makˈtaː.tor]

Noun

mactātor m (genitive mactātōris); third declension

slayer, murderer, slaughterer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	mactātor	mactātōrēs
genitive	mactātōris	mactātōrum
dative	mactātōrī	mactātōribus
accusative	mactātōrem	mactātōrēs
ablative	mactātōre	mactātōribus
vocative	mactātor	mactātōrēs

Synonyms

(murderer): carnifex, homicīda, interfector, percussor, sīcārius

Related terms

References

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