medicator

English

Noun

medicator (plural medicators)

  1. Any medical appliance.

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /me.diˈkaː.tor/, [mɛ.dɪˈkaː.tɔr]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /me.diˈka.tor/, [me.diˈkaː.tor]

Etymology 1

From medicō (“to heal, cure”) +‎ -tor (“-er”, agent noun suffix)

Noun

medicātor m (genitive medicātōris); third declension

  1. (Late Latin) physician
  2. vocative singular of medicātor
Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative medicātor medicātōrēs
Genitive medicātōris medicātōrum
Dative medicātōrī medicātōribus
Accusative medicātōrem medicātōrēs
Ablative medicātōre medicātōribus
Vocative medicātor medicātōrēs
Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

medicātor

  1. second-person singular future passive imperative of medicō
  2. third-person singular future passive imperative of medicō

References
  • medicator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • medicator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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