potator

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin pōtātor.

Noun

potator (plural potators)

1. (obsolete, rare) A drinker.

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “potator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• portato, taproot

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) pōtātor

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

Noun

pōtātor m (genitive pōtātōris); third declension

1. drinker
2. tippler

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pōtātor	pōtātōrēs
Genitive	pōtātōris	pōtātōrum
Dative	pōtātōrī	pōtātōribus
Accusative	pōtātōrem	pōtātōrēs
Ablative	pōtātōre	pōtātōribus
Vocative	pōtātor	pōtātōrēs

References

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