incantator
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
incantator (plural incantators)
- One who works magic by means of incantation.
- 1973, Muslim ibn Ḥajjāj al-Qushayrī, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, →ISBN:
- We landed at a place where a woman came to us and said: A scorpion has bitten the chief of the tribe. Is there any incantator amongst you?
- 1856, Charles Hamilton Smith, The natural history of dogs:
- In the metamorphoses of the ancients, the wolf is conspicuous ; and that demons assume its shape, that sorcerers and incantators alternately pass from the human to the lupine form, is believed by the vulgar throughout Asia and Europe; slightly modified it is a common superstition in Abyssinia, and even among the Caffres.
- 2005, Bayo Ogunjimi, Abdul Rasheed Naʼallah, Introduction to African Oral Literature and Performance, →ISBN, page 159:
- It is obvious that there is a situation of rivalry, since two legs are competing for a road, but the victory of the incantator is ascertained by the fact that flies swarm the excreta.
- 2012, Melvyn Bragg, The Maid of Buttermere, →ISBN:
- Kitty's mother had been such a black-clothed incantator, full of rhyming recipes for ills and puddings, for scalds and weather and animal magic.
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
incantātor m (genitive incantātōris); third declension
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | incantātor | incantātōrēs |
| Genitive | incantātōris | incantātōrum |
| Dative | incantātōrī | incantātōribus |
| Accusative | incantātōrem | incantātōrēs |
| Ablative | incantātōre | incantātōribus |
| Vocative | incantātor | incantātōrēs |
Descendants[edit]
- Old Galician-Portuguese: encantador
- Galician: encantador
- Portuguese: encantador
Verb[edit]
incantātor
References[edit]
- “incantator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- incantator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.