indagator

From Latin indāgātor (“investigator”).

indagator (plural indagators)

1. (obsolete) An investigator.
   • 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, pages 5–6:

     For that, being the number of the Elements, Principles, or Materiall Ingredients of Bodies, is an enquiry whole truth is of that Importance, and of that Difficulty, that it may as well deserve as require to be searched into by such skilfull Indagators of Nature as your selves.

• indagate
• indagation
• indagative
• indagatory
• indagatrix

• adorating, gradation, tanagroid

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪn.daːˈɡaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in̪.d̪aˈɡaː.t̪or]

indagō (“to trace, explore”) +‎ -tor

indāgātor m (genitive indāgātōris, feminine indāgātrīx); third declension

1. investigator, researcher

   Synonym: investīgātor

Third-declension noun.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

indāgātor

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

• “indagator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• indagator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.