orator

English

Alternative forms

• oratour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English oratour, from Anglo-Norman oratour, from Latin ōrātor.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɒ.ɹə.tə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) enPR: ôr'ə-tər
• (New York City) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹ.ə.tɚ/
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ɵˈɾeʈə(ɾ)/

Noun

orator (plural orators)

1. Someone who orates or delivers an oration.
2. A skilled and eloquent public speaker.
   • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

     Tam[burlaine]. Then ſhall we fight couragiouſlye with them?
     Or looke you, I ſhould play the Orator?
     Tech[elles]. No: cowards and faint-hearted runawaies,
     Looke for orations when the foe is neere.
     Our ſwordes shall play the Orators for vs.

   • 1954, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick, “Socrates on Trial: The Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, →OCLC, page 19:

     […] when it becomes obvious that I have not the slightest skill as a speaker – unless, of course, by skilful speaker they mean one who speaks the truth. If that is what they mean, I would agree that I am an orator, though not after their pattern.

3. (obsolete) Someone sent to speak for someone else; an envoy, a messenger.
4. (obsolete) A petitioner, a supplicant.

Synonyms

• speaker

Derived terms

• oratorize
• oratorlike
• oratorship
• oratory
• oratress
• public orator
• stump orator

Translations

someone who orates or delivers an oration

• Arabic: خَطِيب m (ḵaṭīb), خَطِيبَة f (ḵaṭība)
• Armenian: հռետոր (hy) (hṙetor)
• Azerbaijani: natiq
• Belarusian: прамо́ўца m (pramówca), ара́тар m (arátar)
• Bulgarian: ора́тор (bg) m (orátor)
• Catalan: orador (ca) m, oradora (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 演說者 / 演说者 (zh) (yǎnshuōzhě)

• Czech: řečník (cs) m, řečnice f
• Danish: taler (da) c
• Dutch: redenaar (nl) m
• Esperanto: oratoro, oratorino (female)
• Estonian: oraator
• Finnish: puhuja (fi)
• French: orateur (fr) m, oratrice (fr) f
• Galician: orador m, oradora f
• Georgian: ორატორი (oraṭori)
• German: Redner (de) m, Rednerin (de) f
• Greek: αγορητής (el) m (agoritís), αγορήτρια (el) f (agorítria)

  Ancient Greek: ῥήτωρ m (rhḗtōr)

• Hindi: वक्ता (hi) m (vaktā)
• Irish: óráidí m
• Italian: oratore (it) m, oratrice (it) f
• Japanese: 雄弁家 (ゆうべんか, yūbenka), 能弁家 (のうべんか, nōbenka), 演説家 (えんぜつか, enzetsuka)
• Kazakh: шешен (şeşen)
• Korean: 웅변가(雄辯家) (ungbyeon'ga)
• Kyrgyz: чечен (ky) (cecen), оратор (orator)
• Latin: ōrātor (la) m, ōrātrīx f
• Latvian: orators m
• Lithuanian: oratorius m
• Māori: pūkorero
• Navajo: nanitʼáii
• Persian: خطیب (fa) (xatib), ناطق (fa) (nâteq), سخنران (fa) (soxanrân)
• Plautdietsch: Rädna m
• Polish: mówca (pl) m, mówczyni (pl) f, orator (pl) m, oratorka f
• Portuguese: orador (pt) m, oradora f
• Romanian: orator (ro) m, oratoare (ro) f
• Russian: ора́тор (ru) m (orátor)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: беседник m, оратор m

  Latin: besednik (sh) m, orator (sh) m

• Slovak: rečník m, rečníčka f
• Slovene: govornik m
• Spanish: orador (es) m, oradora f
• Swahili: msemaji (sw) class 1/2
• Swedish: talare (sv) c, orator (sv) c
• Tajik: нотиқ (tg) (notiq), суханвар (suxanvar), суханоро (suxanoro), суханпардоз (suxanpardoz)
• Turkish: hatip (tr)
• Ukrainian: промо́вець m (promóvecʹ), ора́тор (uk) m (orátor)
• Urdu: خَطِیب m (xatīb)
• Uzbek: notiq (uz)

skilled and eloquent public speaker

• Azerbaijani: natiq
• Czech: řečník (cs) m, rétor m
• Danish: taler (da) c
• Dutch: redenaar (nl) m
• Greek: ρήτορας (el) m (rítoras)

  Ancient Greek: ῥήτωρ m (rhḗtōr)

• Russian: ора́тор (ru) m (orátor)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} vorbitor (ro) m, ^{(please verify)} vorbitoare (ro) f
• Woiwurrung: ^{(please verify)} moondâ toom-dae-neen

Further reading

• orator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch orateur, orator, from Latin orator.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔrat̪ɔr]
• Hyphenation: ora‧tor

Noun

orator (plural orator-orator)

1. orator

Related terms

• orasi
• oratorium

Further reading

• “orator”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

Etymology

From ōrō +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [oːˈraː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [oˈraː.tor]

Noun

ōrātor m (genitive ōrātōris, feminine ōrātrīx); third declension

1. An orator, speaker.
2. A spokesman, spokesperson.
3. An ambassador (one entrusted with an oral message)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ōrātor	ōrātōrēs
genitive	ōrātōris	ōrātōrum
dative	ōrātōrī	ōrātōribus
accusative	ōrātōrem	ōrātōrēs
ablative	ōrātōre	ōrātōribus
vocative	ōrātor	ōrātōrēs

Descendants

• African Romance: orator
• Catalan: orador
• French: orateur
• Galician: orador
• Italian: oratore
• Piedmontese: orator
• Polish: orator
• Portuguese: orador
• Romanian: orator
• → Russian: ора́тор (orátor)
• Spanish: orador

References

• “orator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “orator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "orator", 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)
• “orator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to sketch the ideal of an orator: imaginem perfecti oratoris adumbrare
    
  • to be considered the foremost orator: primum or principem inter oratores locum obtinere
    
  • to say only a few words: pauca dicere (pauca verba dicere only of the orator)
    
• “orator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• orator in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “orator”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ōrātor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔˈra.tɔr/
• Rhymes: -atɔr
• Syllabification: o‧ra‧tor

Noun

orator m pers (female equivalent oratorka, related adjective oratorski)

1. (literary) orator, oratist, wordsmith (skilled and eloquent public speaker)

   Synonyms: krasomówca, retor

   Hypernym: mówca

Declension

Declension of orator

	singular	plural
nominative	orator	oratorowie/oratorzy/oratory (deprecative)
genitive	oratora	oratorów
dative	oratorowi	oratorom
accusative	oratora	oratorów
instrumental	oratorem	oratorami
locative	oratorze	oratorach
vocative	oratorze	oratorowie/oratorzy/oratory (deprecative)

Derived terms

nouns

• oratorstwo

Related terms

adjectives

• oratoryjny

adverbs

• oratorsko

nouns

• oratoria
• oratorianin
• oratorium

Further reading

• orator in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• orator in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin orator or French orateur.

Noun

orator m (plural oratori, feminine equivalent oratoare)

1. orator, speaker

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	orator	oratorul		oratori	oratorii
genitive-dative	orator	oratorului		oratori	oratorilor
vocative	oratorule			oratorilor

Related terms

• urător

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǒraːtor/
• Hyphenation: o‧ra‧tor

Noun

òrātor m anim (Cyrillic spelling о̀ра̄тор)

1. orator

Declension

Declension of orator

	singular	plural
nominative	orator	oratori
genitive	oratora	oratora
dative	oratoru	oratorima
accusative	oratora	oratore
vocative	oratore	oratori
locative	oratoru	oratorima
instrumental	oratorom	oratorima

Swedish

Noun

orator c

1. an orator

Declension

Declension of orator

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	orator	orators
	definite	oratorn	oratorns
plural	indefinite	oratorer	oratorers
	definite	oratorerna	oratorernas

References

• “orator”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “orator”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “orator”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)