medicator

medicator

English

Noun

medicator (plural medicators)

  1. Any medical appliance.

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Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Etymology tree
Latin medicō
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin medicātor

    From medicō (“to heal, cure”) + -tor (“-er”, agent noun suffix).

    Noun

    medicātor m (genitive medicātōris, feminine medicātrīx); third declension

    1. (Late Latin) physician
    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative medicātor medicātōrēs
    genitive medicātōris medicātōrum
    dative medicātōrī medicātōribus
    accusative medicātōrem medicātōrēs
    ablative medicātōre medicātōribus
    vocative medicātor medicātōrēs
    Descendants
    • Italian: medicatore

    Etymology 2

    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Verb

    medicātor

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

    References

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