dominator
English
Alternative forms
- dominatour (obsolete)
Pronunciation
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Noun
dominator (plural dominators)
- One who, or that which, dominates.
- Coordinate term: subordinator
- (BDSM, uncommon) A male dominant.
- 1988 May 7, Jeff Winters, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 13:
- Young looking 30 yr old dominator, but might bend (flexible) for the right person.
- (graph theory) A node that dominates another.
Derived terms
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [dɔ.mɪˈnaː.tɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [d̪o.miˈnaː.t̪or]
Noun
dominātor m (genitive dominātōris); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | dominātor | dominātōrēs |
genitive | dominātōris | dominātōrum |
dative | dominātōrī | dominātōribus |
accusative | dominātōrem | dominātōrēs |
ablative | dominātōre | dominātōribus |
vocative | dominātor | dominātōrēs |
Descendants
- Catalan: dominador
- French: dominateur
- Galician: dominador
- Italian: dominatore
- Portuguese: dominador
- Romanian: dominator
- Spanish: dominador
Verb
dominātor
- second/third-person singular future active imperative of dominor
References
- “dominator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dominator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dominator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French dominateur, from Latin dominator. Equivalent to domina + -tor.
Adjective
dominator m or n (feminine singular dominatoare, masculine plural dominatori, feminine and neuter plural dominatoare)
Declension
singular | plural | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
nominative- accusative |
indefinite | dominator | dominatoare | dominatori | dominatoare | |||
definite | dominatorul | dominatoarea | dominatorii | dominatoarele | ||||
genitive- dative |
indefinite | dominator | dominatoare | dominatori | dominatoare | |||
definite | dominatorului | dominatoarei | dominatorilor | dominatoarelor |