perceptor

Borrowed from Latin perceptor.

perceptor (plural perceptors)

1. That which perceives.
   • 1967, Scott Symons, Combat Journal of Place D'Armes: A Personal Narrative‎^[1]:

     Only by deliberate effort of will, only by deliberately jamming his perceptor set, could he turn them off […]

   • 2002, The Journal of Orgonomy, Volume 36, Issue 1‎^[2]:

     […] secondary energy (e.g., sound, chemical, mechanical) excites the energy of the perceptor cells before sensation can occur.

• preceptor

From percipiō (“seize; conceive; perceive”).

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

perceptor m (genitive perceptōris); third declension

1. a receiver, imbiber

Third-declension noun.

• English: perceptor
• Italian: percettore
• Sicilian: pircitturi
• Spanish: perceptor

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

Borrowed from Latin perceptor or French percepteur.

perceptor m (plural perceptori)

1. tax collector

Borrowed from Latin perceptor.

perceptor m (plural perceptores, feminine perceptora, feminine plural perceptoras)

1. recipient

• “perceptor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025