investigator

Attested in the mid‐16th century; from Latin investigator, from investigare.

investigator (plural investigators)

1. One who investigates.

• principal investigator

• co-investigator

• investigatrix (feminine)

• investigator in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• “investigator” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
• investigator in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

investīgātor m (genitive investīgātōris); third declension

1. investigator, researcher
   • 2018, Tuomo Pekkanen, Nova formicae species , Nuntii Latini 27.4.2018:

     Grex investigatorum in Borneo novam formicae speciem invenit, quae se explodendo communitatem suam defendit.

     A group of researchers in Borneo has found a new species of ant which defends its nest by exploding.

Third-declension noun.

• Catalan: investigador
• Galician: investigador
• Ladino: investigador
• Portuguese: investigador
• Spanish: investigador

investīgātor

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

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

investigator m (plural investigatori)

1. investigator

• investiga
• investigare
• investigație