paritor

English

Etymology

Compare apparitor and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin paritor (“servant, attendant”).

Noun

paritor (plural paritors)

1. Obsolete form of apparitor.
   • Dryden

     summoned by an host of paritors

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “paritor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• airport

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) paritor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of pariō
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of pariō

References

• “paritor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• paritor 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)
• paritor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.