extortor

English

Noun

extortor (plural extortors)

A muscle that carries out extorsion.

See also

extorter

Latin

Etymology

extorqueō (“to wrench out, extort”) +‎ -tor

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ekˈstor.tor/, [ɛkˈs̠t̪ɔrt̪ɔr]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ekˈstor.tor/, [ekˈst̪ɔrt̪or]

Noun

extortor m (genitive extortōris); third declension

extorter

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	extortor	extortōrēs
Genitive	extortōris	extortōrum
Dative	extortōrī	extortōribus
Accusative	extortōrem	extortōrēs
Ablative	extortōre	extortōribus
Vocative	extortor	extortōrēs

References

“extortor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“extortor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

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