ruminator

English

Etymology

ruminate +‎ -or

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

ruminator (plural ruminators)

1. One who ruminates; one who meditates or reflects.
   • 2009 January 25, Maria Russo, “Unhappy Together”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The narrator is a reader and ruminator, a provocateur.

Related terms

• ruminate

Latin

Verb

rūminātor

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of rūminor

References

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