divinator

English

Etymology

From Latin . See divination.

Noun

divinator (plural divinators)

  1. One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 divinator in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Verb

dīvīnātor

  1. second-person singular future passive imperative of dīvīnō
  2. third-person singular future passive imperative of dīvīnō

References
  • divinator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • divinator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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