paritor

English

Etymology

Compare apparitor and Latin paritor (“servant, attendant”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpæɹɪtə(ɹ)/

Noun

paritor (plural paritors)

Obsolete form of apparitor.
- 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 6484883, Act IV, page 45:
  […] you ſhall be ſummon'd by an hoſt of Paratours;

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for paritor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Airport, airport

Latin

Verb

paritor

second/third-person singular future passive imperative of pariō

References

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

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