castrator
English
Etymology
Noun
castrator (plural castrators)
- One who castrates (gelds or neuters).
- 2007 January 7, Lauren Collins, “Faces of War”, in New York Times[1]:
- “I remind myself,” McCleary says, unconvincingly, “that in medieval times, surgeons and dentists were classified under the sign of Mars along with butchers, barbers, tinkers, castrators of animals, murderers and hangmen.”
Synonyms
Translations
person who castrates
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Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) castrātor
- second-person singular future passive imperative of castrō
- third-person singular future passive imperative of castrō
References
- “castrator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- castrator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.