secutor

• sequūtor

From sequor (“to follow”) + -tor (“-er”).

secūtor m (genitive secūtōris, feminine secūtrīx); third declension

1. follower, pursuer
2. (gladiatorial combat) secutor (a kind of light-armed gladiator who fought with the net-fighters retiarii (pursuing them))

Third-declension noun.

• → Italian: secutore
• → Old French: suytour (semi-learned)
  • → Middle English: sutour
    • English: suitor

• “secutor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “secutor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "secutor", 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)
• “secutor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “secutor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers