rhetor

English

Etymology

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From Latin rhētor (“teacher of rhetoric, rhetorician”), from Ancient Greek ῥήτωρ (rhḗtōr).

Noun

rhetor (plural rhetors)

1. (archaic) A rhetorician.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Anagrams

• Rother, rethor, rother

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Latin

Etymology

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From Ancient Greek ῥήτωρ (rhḗtōr)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈreː.tor/, [ˈreːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.tor/, [ˈrɛːt̪or]

Noun

rhētor m (genitive rhētoris); third declension

1. teacher of rhetoric.
2. (derogatory) orator, rhetorician.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rhētor	rhētorēs
Genitive	rhētoris	rhētorum
Dative	rhētorī	rhētoribus
Accusative	rhētorem	rhētorēs
Ablative	rhētore	rhētoribus
Vocative	rhētor	rhētorēs

Related terms

• rhētorica
• rhētoricē
• rhētoricor
• rhētoricus
• rhētorissō

Descendants

• → English: rhetor
• → French: rhéteur
• → Spanish: rétor

References

• “rhetor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rhetor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rhetor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a teacher of rhetoric: rhetor, dicendi magister
    
  • fine, rhetorical phrases: flosculi, rhetorum pompa
    
• Professor Kidd, et al. Collins Gem Latin Dictionary. HarperCollins Publishers (Glasgow: 2004). →ISBN. page 306.