assentator
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin , from assentari (“to assent constantly”).
Noun
assentator (plural assentators)
- An obsequious flatterer.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “assentator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /as.senˈtaː.tor/, [äs̠ːɛn̪ˈt̪äːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /as.senˈta.tor/, [äsːen̪ˈt̪äːt̪or]
Noun
assentātor m (genitive assentātōris); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | assentātor | assentātōrēs |
Genitive | assentātōris | assentātōrum |
Dative | assentātōrī | assentātōribus |
Accusative | assentātōrem | assentātōrēs |
Ablative | assentātōre | assentātōribus |
Vocative | assentātor | assentātōrēs |
Verb
(deprecated template usage) assentātor
- second-person singular future active imperative of assentor
- third-person singular future active imperative of assentor
References
- “assentator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- assentator 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)
- assentator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to turn a deaf ear to, to open one's ears to..: aures claudere, patefacere (e.g. veritati, assentatoribus)
- to turn a deaf ear to, to open one's ears to..: aures claudere, patefacere (e.g. veritati, assentatoribus)
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