explorator

From Latin explōrātor.

explorator (plural explorators)

1. (dated) explorer

• “explorator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From explōrāre (“to explore, to spy upon, to test”) +‎ -tor (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from ex- (“out”) + plōrāre (“to shout, to cry”), possibly with reference to raising game while hunting by sending out cryers.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ek.sploːˈraː.tor/, [ɛks̠pɫ̪oːˈräːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ek.sploˈra.tor/, [eksploˈräːt̪or]

explōrātor m (genitive explōrātōris); third declension

1. a scout
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.11:

     Qua re per exploratores nuntiata

     These things having been announced by the scouts

2. a spy

Third-declension noun.

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

Borrowed from French explorateur. Equivalent to explora +‎ -tor.

explorator m (plural exploratori)

1. explorer