hortator

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin hortor

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Latin hortātor

From hortor + -tor.

Noun

hortātor m (genitive hortātōris); third declension

1. inciter, encourager, exhorter

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	hortātor	hortātōrēs
genitive	hortātōris	hortātōrum
dative	hortātōrī	hortātōribus
accusative	hortātōrem	hortātōrēs
ablative	hortātōre	hortātōribus
vocative	hortātor	hortātōrēs

Descendants

• → Italian: ortatore

Verb

hortātor

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of hortor

References

• “hortator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hortator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “hortator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “hortator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers