castigator

From castigate +‎ -or.

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castigator (plural castigators)

1. One who castigates.

• censurer
• scolder
• vituperator

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kas.tiːˈɡaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kas.t̪iˈɡaː.t̪or]

castīgō (“to rebuke, criticise”) +‎ -tor

castīgātor m (genitive castīgātōris); third declension

1. a corrector; one who corrects or chastises

Third-declension noun.

• Italian: castigatore
• Spanish: castigador
• Portuguese: castigador

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

castīgātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of castīgō

• “castigator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “castigator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• castigator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) a stern critic of morals: severus morum castigator