confirmator
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]confirmator (plural confirmators)
- (archaic) # Someone or something that confirms; a confirmer.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- the definitive confirmator and test of things uncertain
References
[edit]- “confirmator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kon.fiːrˈmaː.tor/, [kõːfiːrˈmäːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kon.firˈma.tor/, [koɱfirˈmäːt̪or]
Etymology 1
[edit]cōnfīrmō (“to confirm, assert”) + -tor
Noun
[edit]cōnfīrmātor m (genitive cōnfīrmātōris); third declension
- one who, or that which, confirms, establishes or assures something
- cōnfīrmātor pecūniae ― a surety
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cōnfīrmātor | cōnfīrmātōrēs |
Genitive | cōnfīrmātōris | cōnfīrmātōrum |
Dative | cōnfīrmātōrī | cōnfīrmātōribus |
Accusative | cōnfīrmātōrem | cōnfīrmātōrēs |
Ablative | cōnfīrmātōre | cōnfīrmātōribus |
Vocative | cōnfīrmātor | cōnfīrmātōrēs |
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]cōnfirmātor
References
[edit]- “confirmator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “confirmator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- confirmator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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