palpator

English

Etymology

Latin , meaning "stroker".

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

palpator (plural palpators)

1. One who palpates.
2. A device for palpating.
3. (zoology, dated) One of a family of clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary palpi.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “palpator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

Etymology

From palpō (“touch softly, stroke; flatter”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /palˈpaː.tor/, [päɫ̪ˈpäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /palˈpa.tor/, [pälˈpäːt̪or]

Noun

palpātor m (genitive palpātōris); third declension

1. stroker
2. (figuratively) cajoler, flatterer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	palpātor	palpātōrēs
Genitive	palpātōris	palpātōrum
Dative	palpātōrī	palpātōribus
Accusative	palpātōrem	palpātōrēs
Ablative	palpātōre	palpātōribus
Vocative	palpātor	palpātōrēs

Synonyms

• (flatterer): palpō

Related terms

• palpābilis
• palpāmen
• palpāmentum
• palpātiō

• palpebra
• palpebrālis
• palpebrāris
• palpebrātiō

• palpebrō
• palpitātiō
• palpitātus

• palpitō
• palpō
• palpus

Descendants

• Catalan: palpator

References

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