saltator

See also: Saltator

English

Black-headed saltator, Saltator atriceps

Wikispecies

Etymology

Borrowed from the genus name, translingual Saltator, borrowed from Latin saltātor (“dancer”).

Noun

saltator (plural saltators)

1. One of several passerine birds in the genus Saltator.

Latin

Etymology 1

From saltō +‎ -tor.

Noun

saltātor m (genitive saltātōris, feminine saltātrīx); third declension

1. dancer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	saltātor	saltātōrēs
Genitive	saltātōris	saltātōrum
Dative	saltātōrī	saltātōribus
Accusative	saltātōrem	saltātōrēs
Ablative	saltātōre	saltātōribus
Vocative	saltātor	saltātōrēs

Derived terms

• saltātōrius

Related terms

• saltātrīx

Etymology 2

Verb

saltātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of saltō

References

• “saltator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “saltator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• saltator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.