orator

• oratour (obsolete)

From Middle English oratour, from Anglo-Norman oratour, from Latin ōrātor.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɒ.ɹə.tə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) enPR: ôr'ə-tər
• (New York City) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹ.ə.tɚ/
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ɵˈɾeʈə(ɾ)/

orator (plural orators)

1. Someone who orates or delivers an oration.
2. A skilled and eloquent public speaker.
   • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

     Tam[burlaine]. Then ſhall we fight couragiouſlye with them?
     Or looke you, I ſhould play the Orator?
     Tech[elles]. No: cowards and faint-hearted runawaies,
     Looke for orations when the foe is neere.
     Our ſwordes shall play the Orators for vs.

   • 1954, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick, “Socrates on Trial: The Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, →OCLC, page 19:

     […] when it becomes obvious that I have not the slightest skill as a speaker – unless, of course, by skilful speaker they mean one who speaks the truth. If that is what they mean, I would agree that I am an orator, though not after their pattern.

3. (obsolete) Someone sent to speak for someone else; an envoy, a messenger.
4. (obsolete) A petitioner, a supplicant.

• speaker

• orator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Dutch orateur, orator, from Latin orator.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔrat̪ɔr]
• Hyphenation: ora‧tor

orator (plural orator-orator)

1. orator

• “orator”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From ōrō + -tor.

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

ōrātor m (genitive ōrātōris, feminine ōrātrīx); third declension

1. An orator, speaker.
2. A spokesman, spokesperson.
3. An ambassador (one entrusted with an oral message)

Third-declension noun.

• “orator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “orator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "orator", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “orator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to sketch the ideal of an orator: imaginem perfecti oratoris adumbrare
    
  • to be considered the foremost orator: primum or principem inter oratores locum obtinere
    
  • to say only a few words: pauca dicere (pauca verba dicere only of the orator)
    
• “orator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• orator in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “orator”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Learned borrowing from Latin ōrātor.

• IPA^(key): /ɔˈra.tɔr/
• Rhymes: -atɔr
• Syllabification: o‧ra‧tor

orator m pers (female equivalent oratorka, related adjective oratorski)

1. (literary) orator, oratist, wordsmith (skilled and eloquent public speaker)

   Synonyms: krasomówca, retor

   Hypernym: mówca

• “orator”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “orator”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)

Borrowed from Latin orator or French orateur.

orator m (plural oratori, feminine equivalent oratoare)

1. orator, speaker

• urător

• IPA^(key): /ǒraːtor/
• Hyphenation: o‧ra‧tor

òrātor m anim (Cyrillic spelling о̀ра̄тор)

1. orator

orator c

1. an orator

• “orator”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “orator”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “orator”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)