sectator

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin sectātor, from sector, frequentative of sequor (“follow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛkˈteɪtə/

Noun

sectator (plural sectators)

1. (now rare) A follower, a disciple; someone who follows a particular school; partisan.
   • 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, II:

     But that the Earth, Water, Air, are of a nature equally constituted immoveable about the centre, is it not the opinion of your self, Aristotle, Ptolomy, and all their sectators?

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “sectator”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• carottes, cotreats, crostate

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /sekˈtaː.tor/, [s̠ɛkˈt̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sekˈta.tor/, [sekˈt̪äːt̪or]

Noun

sectātor m (genitive sectātōris); third declension

1. follower, attendant, adherent

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sectātor	sectātōrēs
Genitive	sectātōris	sectātōrum
Dative	sectātōrī	sectātōribus
Accusative	sectātōrem	sectātōrēs
Ablative	sectātōre	sectātōribus
Vocative	sectātor	sectātōrēs

Verb

(deprecated template usage) sectātor

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

Further reading

• “sectator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sectator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sectator 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)