munitor

munitor

Latin

Etymology

    From mūniō + -tor.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    mūnītor m (genitive mūnītōris); third declension

    1. a fortification-worker, fortifier
      • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 7.23:
        Ab Romanis nec opus intermissum—triarii erant, qui muniebant—et ab hastatis principibusque, qui pro munitoribus intenti armatique steterunt, proelium initum.
        The works were not set aside by the Romans—triarii where there to fend off the enemy—and a fight broke out led by the hastati and principes, eager and fully-equiped, who had been placed before the fortification-workers.

    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative mūnītor mūnītōrēs
    genitive mūnītōris mūnītōrum
    dative mūnītōrī mūnītōribus
    accusative mūnītōrem mūnītōrēs
    ablative mūnītōre mūnītōribus
    vocative mūnītor mūnītōrēs

    Verb

    mūnītor

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

    References

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