orator

• oratour (obsolete)

From Middle English oratour, from Anglo-Norman oratour, from Latin ōrātor.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɒ.ɹə.tə(ɹ)/

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• (US) enPR: ôr'ə-tər
• (NYC) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹ.ə.tɚ/

orator (plural orators)

1. Someone who orates or delivers an oration.
2. A skilled and eloquent public speaker.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

     Tam[burlaine]. Then ſhall we fight couragiouſlye with them?
     Or looke you, I ſhould play the Orator?
     Tech[elles]. No: cowards and faint-hearted runawaies,
     Looke for orations when the foe is neere.
     Our ſwordes shall play the Orators for vs.

3. (obsolete) Someone sent to speak for someone else; an envoy, a messenger.
4. (obsolete) A petitioner, a supplicant.

• speaker

• oratory
• stump orator

• orator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Dutch orateur, orator, from Latin orator.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔrat̪ɔr]
• Hyphenation: ora‧tor

orator (first-person possessive oratorku, second-person possessive oratormu, third-person possessive oratornya)

1. orator.

• “orator” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From ōrāre.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /oːˈraː.tor/, [oːˈräːt̪ɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈra.tor/, [oˈräːt̪or]

ōrātor m (genitive ōrātōris, feminine ōrātrīx); third declension

1. An orator, speaker.
2. A spokesman, spokesperson.
3. An ambassador (one entrusted with an oral message))

Third-declension noun.

• “orator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “orator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• orator 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)
• orator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to sketch the ideal of an orator: imaginem perfecti oratoris adumbrare
    
  • to be considered the foremost orator: primum or principem inter oratores locum obtinere
    
  • to say only a few words: pauca dicere (pauca verba dicere only of the orator)
    
• “orator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• orator in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “orator”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

From Latin orator or French orateur.

orator m (plural oratori, feminine equivalent oratoare)

1. orator, speaker

• urător

• IPA^(key): /ǒraːtor/
• Hyphenation: o‧ra‧tor

òrātor m (Cyrillic spelling о̀ра̄тор)

1. orator