laudator

See also: lăudător

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin laudator.

Noun

laudator (plural laudators)

  1. One who lauds.
    • 1992, Historia, page 293:
      As in most speeches, exaggeration and embellishment were standard devices by which the laudator amplified his subject's virtues or vices.
    • 2007, Hanna Boeke, The Value of Victory in Pindar's Odes, page 172:
      To the extent that he is visible at all, the poet fulfils the role of laudator, not commentator on or representative of a world view.
    • 2012, Tuana Dowan, Thena: Fight for the Future, page 377:
      When he made all those wrong decisions in his business and private life, he expected me to be a sycophant, a laudator,or a yes-man.

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Latin

Etymology

From laudō + -tor.

Pronunciation

Noun

laudātor m (genitive laudātōris, feminine laudātrīx); third declension

  1. praiser, eulogizer, panegyrist

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative laudātor laudātōrēs
Genitive laudātōris laudātōrum
Dative laudātōrī laudātōribus
Accusative laudātōrem laudātōrēs
Ablative laudātōre laudātōribus
Vocative laudātor laudātōrēs

Descendants

  • English: laudator
  • Italian: lodatore
  • Romanian: lăudător

Verb

laudātor

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

References

  • laudator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • laudator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • laudator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • laudator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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