novator

novator (plural novators)

1. (obsolete, rare) An innovator.
   • 1864 October, The Journal of sacred literature:

     We need scarcely allude here to works of art: in the sphere of poetry and of fiction, generally, the decay is so universally admitted, now, that the boldest novators would not attempt to contradict it.

   • 1879, The Dublin Review, volume 84, page 540:

     France has enjoyed the sad privilege of witnessing twice in her history, at an interval of two or three centuries, a coup d'état directed against her institutions which novators have endeavoured to destroy and to blot out.

• Vorotan

novātor

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

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