insidiator

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

insidiator (plural insidiators)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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Latin

Etymology 1

īnsidior +‎ -tor

Noun

īnsidiātor m (genitive īnsidiātōris); third declension

1. a person lying in ambush
2. lurker
3. plotter

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	īnsidiātor	īnsidiātōrēs
Genitive	īnsidiātōris	īnsidiātōrum
Dative	īnsidiātōrī	īnsidiātōribus
Accusative	īnsidiātōrem	īnsidiātōrēs
Ablative	īnsidiātōre	īnsidiātōribus
Vocative	īnsidiātor	īnsidiātōrēs

Descendants

• Italian: insidiatore
• Portuguese: insidiador
• Spanish: insidiador

Etymology 2

Verb

(deprecated template usage) īnsidiātor

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

References

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