fornicator

• fornicatour (obsolete)

From Middle English fornicatour, from Medieval Latin fornicātor.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔː(ɹ).nɪ.keɪ.tə(ɹ)/

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fornicator (plural fornicators)

1. An unmarried person who engages in sexual intercourse, especially when considered to be of an illicit or illegal nature.

   Coordinate term: adulterer

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 6:9–10, column 1:

     Know yee not that the vnrighteous ſhall not inherite the kingdome of God? Be not deceiued: neither fornicatours, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abuſers of themſelues with mankinde, Nor theeues, nor couetous, nor drunkards, nor reuilers, nor extortioners, ſhall inherit the kingdom of God.

   • 1917, Maulana Muhammad Ali (translator), Qu’ran 24:2

     (As for) the fornicatress and the fornicator, flog each of them, (giving) a hundred stripes, and let not pity for them detain you in the matter of obedience to Allah, if you believe in Allah and the last day, and let a party of believers witness their chastisement.

• See also Thesaurus:libertine

• fornicatress, fornicatresses f (very rare)
• fornicatrix, fornicatrices f (very rare)

From fornicor (“to fornicate”) +‎ -tor.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fɔr.nɪˈkaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [for.niˈkaː.t̪or]

fornicātor m (genitive fornicātōris, feminine fornicātrīx); third declension

1. fornicator (male)

Third-declension noun.

• fornicārius

• fornicātrīx

• “fornicator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "fornicator", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• fornicator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from French fornicateur.

fornicator m (plural fornicatori)

1. fornicator

   Synonym: desfrânat

• fornicator in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN