palpator

Borrowed from Latin palpātor.

• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

palpator (plural palpators)

1. Someone who palpates.
2. A device for palpating.
3. (zoology, dated) One of a family of clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary palpi.

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

From palpō (“touch softly, stroke; flatter”) +‎ -tor.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /palˈpaː.tor/, [päɫ̪ˈpäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /palˈpa.tor/, [pälˈpäːt̪or]

palpātor m (genitive palpātōris); third declension

1. stroker
2. (figuratively) cajoler, flatterer

Third-declension noun.

• (flatterer): palpō

• Catalan: palpator

• “palpator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• palpator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.