orator
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English oratour, from Anglo-Norman oratour, from Latin ōrātor.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɒ.ɹə.tə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) enPR: ôr'ə-tər
- (NYC) IPA(key): /ˈɑɹ.ə.tɚ/
Noun[edit]
orator (plural orators)
- Someone who orates or delivers an oration.
- A skilled and eloquent public speaker.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; 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.
- (obsolete) Someone sent to speak for someone else; an envoy, a messenger.
- (obsolete) A petitioner, a supplicant.
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
someone who orates or delivers an oration
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skilled and eloquent public speaker
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Further reading[edit]
Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Dutch orateur, orator, from Latin orator.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
orator (first-person possessive oratorku, second-person possessive oratormu, third-person possessive oratornya)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “orator” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /oːˈraː.tor/, [oːˈräːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /oˈra.tor/, [oˈräːt̪or]
Noun[edit]
ōrātor m (genitive ōrātōris, feminine ōrātrīx); third declension
- An orator, speaker.
- A spokesman, spokesperson.
- An ambassador (one entrusted with an oral message))
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | ōrātor | ōrātōrēs |
Genitive | ōrātōris | ōrātōrum |
Dative | ōrātōrī | ōrātōribus |
Accusative | ōrātōrem | ōrātōrēs |
Ablative | ōrātōre | ōrātōribus |
Vocative | ōrātor | ōrātōrēs |
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “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[1], 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)
- to sketch the ideal of an orator: imaginem perfecti oratoris adumbrare
- “orator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- orator in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], 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
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin orator or French orateur.
Noun[edit]
orator m (plural oratori, feminine equivalent oratoare)
Declension[edit]
Declension of orator
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) orator | oratorul | (niște) oratori | oratorii |
genitive/dative | (unui) orator | oratorului | (unor) oratori | oratorilor |
vocative | oratorule | oratorilor |
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Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
òrātor m (Cyrillic spelling о̀ра̄тор)
Declension[edit]
Declension of orator
Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
orator c
- an orator
Declension[edit]
Declension of orator | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | orator | oratorn | oratorer | oratorerna |
Genitive | orators | oratorns | oratorers | oratorernas |
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