assentator

English

Etymology

Latin , from assentari (“to assent constantly”).

Noun

assentator (plural assentators)

An obsequious flatterer.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Latin

Alternative forms

adsentātor

Etymology

From assentor +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /as.senˈtaː.tor/, [as.sɛnˈtaː.tɔr]

Noun

assentātor m (genitive assentātōris); third declension

yes man
flatterer, toady

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	assentātor	assentātōrēs
Genitive	assentātōris	assentātōrum
Dative	assentātōrī	assentātōribus
Accusative	assentātōrem	assentātōrēs
Ablative	assentātōre	assentātōribus
Vocative	assentātor	assentātōrēs

Verb

assentātor

second-person singular future active imperative of assentor
third-person singular future active imperative of assentor

References

assentator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
assentator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
assentator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to turn a deaf ear to, to open one's ears to..: aures claudere, patefacere (e.g. veritati, assentatoribus)

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