emancipator

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin emancipator, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin emancipare (“to emancipate”); see emancipate.

Noun

emancipator (plural emancipators)

1. A person who emancipates.

   US President Abraham Lincoln was called the Great Emancipator after issuing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.

Related terms

• emancipate
• emancipation
• emancipatory
• emancipatrix

Further reading

• “emancipator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “emancipator”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• pentamoraic, ractopamine

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) ēmancipātor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of ēmancipō
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of ēmancipō

References

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