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)/

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• (US) enPR: ôr'ə-tər
• (NYC) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹ.ə.tɚ/

Noun

orator (plural orators)

1. Someone who orates or delivers an oration.
2. A skilled and eloquent public speaker.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; 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.

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

Synonyms

• speaker

Derived terms

• oratory
• stump orator

Translations

someone who orates or delivers an oration

• Armenian: հռետոր (hy) (hṙetor)
• Azerbaijani: natiq
• Belarusian: прамо́ўца m (pramóŭca)
• Catalan: orador (ca) m, oradora (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: řečník m
• Dutch: redenaar (nl) m
• Esperanto: oratoro, oratorino (female)
• Finnish: puhuja (fi)
• French: orateur (fr) m, oratrice (fr) f
• Galician: orador m, oradora f
• German: Redner (de) m, Rednerin (de) f
• Greek: αγορητής (el) m (agoritís), αγορήτρια (el) f (agorítria)

  Ancient: ῥήτωρ m (rhḗtōr)

• 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)
• Latin: ōrātor (la) m, ōrātrīx f
• Maori: pūkorero
• Navajo: nanitʼáii
• 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

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

• Slovak: rečník m
• Spanish: orador (es) m, oradora f
• Swahili: msemaji (sw) class 1/2
• Ukrainian: промо́вець m (promóvecʹ)

skilled and eloquent public speaker

• Azerbaijani: natiq
• Dutch: redenaar (nl) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: ῥήτωρ m (rhḗtōr)

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

Further reading

• orator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch orateur, orator, from Latin orator.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

orator (first-person possessive oratorku, second-person possessive oratormu, third-person possessive oratornya)

1. orator.

Related terms

• orasi
• oratorium

 

Further reading

• “orator” in Online Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language [Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia Daring], Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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Latin

Etymology

From ōrāre.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /oːˈraː.tor/, [oːˈräːt̪ɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈra.tor/, [oˈräːt̪or]

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.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ōrātor	ōrātōrēs
Genitive	ōrātōris	ōrātōrum
Dative	ōrātōrī	ōrātōribus
Accusative	ōrātōrem	ōrātōrēs
Ablative	ōrātōre	ōrātōribus
Vocative	ōrātor	ōrātōrēs

Descendants

• Catalan: orador
• French: orateur
• Italian: oratore
• Piedmontese: 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’s 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 (accessed 16 July 2016) 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

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin orator or French orateur.

Noun

orator m (plural oratori, feminine equivalent oratoare)

1. orator, speaker

Declension

Declension of orator

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) orator	oratorul	(niște) oratori	oratorii
genitive/dative	(unui) orator	oratorului	(unor) oratori	oratorilor
vocative	oratorule		oratorilor

Related terms

• urător

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

òrātor m (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