rhetor

English

Etymology

Latin rhētor (“teacher of rhetoric, rhetorician”), from Ancient Greek ῥήτωρ (rhḗtōr).

Noun

rhetor (plural rhetors)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Anagrams

Rother, rethor, rother

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ῥήτωρ (rhḗtōr)

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈreː.tor/, [ˈreː.tɔr]

Noun

rhētor m (genitive rhētoris); third declension

teacher of rhetoric.
(derogatory) orator, rhetorician.

Declension

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rhētor	rhētorēs
Genitive	rhētoris	rhētorum
Dative	rhētorī	rhētoribus
Accusative	rhētorem	rhētorēs
Ablative	rhētore	rhētoribus
Vocative	rhētor	rhētorēs

Related terms

rhētorica
rhētoricē
rhētoricor
rhētoricus
rhētorissō

Descendants

→ English: rhetor
→ French: rhéteur
→ Spanish: rétor

References

rhetor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
rhetor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
rhetor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a teacher of rhetoric: rhetor, dicendi magister
- fine, rhetorical phrases: flosculi, rhetorum pompa
Professor Kidd, et al. Collins Gem Latin Dictionary. HarperCollins Publishers (Glasgow: 2004). →ISBN. page 306.

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