fabricator

English

Etymology

fabricate +‎ -or

Noun

fabricator (plural fabricators)

1. A person who fabricates or manufactures something; a manufacturer
2. A person who makes a fabrication of something; a counterfeiter or falsifier

Translations

person who fabricates or manufactures

• French: fabricateur (fr) m, fabricatrice (fr) f
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• Latin: fabricātor m

counterfeiter or falsifier

• French: fabricateur (fr) m, fabricatrice (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

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Latin

Etymology

From fābricor +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /faː.briˈkaː.tor/, [fäːbrɪˈkäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fa.briˈka.tor/, [fäbriˈkäːt̪or]

Noun

fābricātor m (genitive fābricātōris); third declension

1. builder, maker

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fābricātor	fābricātōrēs
Genitive	fābricātōris	fābricātōrum
Dative	fābricātōrī	fābricātōribus
Accusative	fābricātōrem	fābricātōrēs
Ablative	fābricātōre	fābricātōribus
Vocative	fābricātor	fābricātōrēs

Verb

(deprecated template usage) fabricātor

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

References

• “fabricator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fabricator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fabricator 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)
• fabricator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) God is the Creator of the world: deus est mundi procreator (not creator), aedificator, fabricator, opifex rerum