apparitor

English

Etymology

Latin appāritor (“public servant”), from appareo (“I wait upon”).

Noun

apparitor (plural apparitors)

  1. (historical) An officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.
    • De Quincey
      Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world.
  2. A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 apparitor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Etymology

From appāreō (“wait upon”).

Pronunciation

Noun

appāritor m (genitive appāritōris); third declension

  1. a gatekeeper
  2. a public servant
  3. a servant, secretary, lictor, deputy

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative appāritor appāritōrēs
Genitive appāritōris appāritōrum
Dative appāritōrī appāritōribus
Accusative appāritōrem appāritōrēs
Ablative appāritōre appāritōribus
Vocative appāritor appāritōrēs

Descendants

References
  • apparitor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • apparitor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • apparitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.