fornicator

English

Alternative forms

• fornicatour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English fornicatour, from Medieval Latin fornicātor.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔː(ɹ).nɪ.keɪ.tə(ɹ)/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

fornicator (plural fornicators)

1. An unmarried person who engages in sexual intercourse, especially when considered to be of an illicit or illegal nature.

   Coordinate term: adulterer

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 6:9–10, column 1:

     Know yee not that the vnrighteous ſhall not inherite the kingdome of God? Be not deceiued: neither fornicatours, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abuſers of themſelues with mankinde, Nor theeues, nor couetous, nor drunkards, nor reuilers, nor extortioners, ſhall inherit the kingdom of God.

   • 1917, Maulana Muhammad Ali (translator), Qu’ran 24:2

     (As for) the fornicatress and the fornicator, flog each of them, (giving) a hundred stripes, and let not pity for them detain you in the matter of obedience to Allah, if you believe in Allah and the last day, and let a party of believers witness their chastisement.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:libertine

Related terms

• fornicatress, fornicatresses f (very rare)
• fornicatrix, fornicatrices f (very rare)

Translations

unmarried person who engages in sexual intercourse

• Arabic: زَانٍ (zānin)
• Dutch: ontuchtige (nl) c
• French: fornicateur (fr) m, forniqueur (fr) m, fornicatrice (fr) f
• German: Hurenbock (de) m, Hurer (de) m, Hure (de) f, Unzuchtsünder m, Unzuchtsünderin f, Unzüchtiger m, Unzüchtige f
• Irish: táthach m
• Slovak: chlipník m, chlipnica f, chlípnik m, chlípnica f, nerestník m, nerestnica f, smilník m, smilnica f
• Spanish: fornicador m, fornicario m
• Swedish: horbock (sv) c
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: زانی m (zani), زانیه f (zaniye)

• Woiwurrung: barmeen

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin fornix

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin fornicor

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Latin fornicātor

From fornicor (“to fornicate”) + -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fɔr.nɪˈkaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [for.niˈkaː.tor]

Noun

fornicātor m (genitive fornicātōris, feminine fornicātrīx); third declension

1. fornicator (male)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fornicātor	fornicātōrēs
genitive	fornicātōris	fornicātōrum
dative	fornicātōrī	fornicātōribus
accusative	fornicātōrem	fornicātōrēs
ablative	fornicātōre	fornicātōribus
vocative	fornicātor	fornicātōrēs

Synonyms

• fornicārius

Related terms

• fornicātrīx

Descendants

• French: fornicateur
• Italian: fornicatore
• Spanish: fornicador

References

• “fornicator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "fornicator", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “fornicator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fornicateur.

Noun

fornicator m (plural fornicatori)

1. fornicator

   Synonym: desfrânat

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	fornicator	fornicatorul	fornicatori	fornicatorii
genitive-dative	fornicator	fornicatorului	fornicatori	fornicatorilor
vocative	fornicatorule		fornicatorilor

References

• fornicator in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN