expilator

English

Etymology

From Latin expīlātor, from expīlō.

Noun

expilator (plural expilators)

  1. (obsolete) One who plunders or pillages.
    • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 26:
      for which the most barbarous Expilators found the most civill Rhetorick

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

expīlō (to pillage, plunder) + -tor

Noun

expīlātor m (genitive expīlātōris); third declension

  1. pillager, plunderer
Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative expīlātor expīlātōrēs
Genitive expīlātōris expīlātōrum
Dative expīlātōrī expīlātōribus
Accusative expīlātōrem expīlātōrēs
Ablative expīlātōre expīlātōribus
Vocative expīlātor expīlātōrēs

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

expīlātor

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

References

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