probator

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Etymology

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Latin

Noun

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probator (plural probators)

  1. An examiner; an approver.
    • 1691, Henry Maydman, Naval Speculations, AND Maritime Politicks: Being a Modest and Brief DISCOURSE OF THE Royal Navy OF ENGLAND: OF Its Oeconomy and Government, AND A Projection for an everlasting Seminary of Seamen, by a Royal Maritime Hospital.:
      Warranted Officers, that are reckoned ancient experienced Men of the same Employments, some nominated, and appointed for Probators, as well as all from the Captains and Commissioners
  2. (law, UK, obsolete) One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it and accused his accomplices in order to obtain pardon.

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Latin

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Etymology 1

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From probō +‎ -tor.

Noun

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probātor m (genitive probātōris); third declension

  1. approver
  2. examiner
Declension
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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative probātor probātōrēs
Genitive probātōris probātōrum
Dative probātōrī probātōribus
Accusative probātōrem probātōrēs
Ablative probātōre probātōribus
Vocative probātor probātōrēs
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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probātor

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

References

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

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French probatoire.

Adjective

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probator m or n (feminine singular probatoare, masculine plural probatori, feminine and neuter plural probatoare)

  1. probationary

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