lator

From the radical of the supine of ferō, lātum +‎ -tor.

lātor m (genitive lātōris); third declension

1. Someone who proposes a law, proposer, carrier.
   • 63 B.C.E., Cicero, In Catilinam, 4.5.10

     […] denique ipsum latorem Semproniae legis iniussu populi poenas rei publicae dependisse

     […] and moreover that the very proposer of the Sempronian law suffered punishment by the command of the people.

Third-declension noun.

• lēgislātor

• Italian: latore

• “lator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a legislator: qui leges scribit (not legum lator)