orator

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English oratour, from Anglo-Norman oratour, from Latin ōrātor.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɒ.ɹə.tə(ɹ)/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • (US) enPR: ôr'ə-tər
  • (New York City) IPA(key): /ˈɑɹ.ə.tɚ/

Noun

orator (plural orators)

  1. Someone who orates or delivers an oration.
  2. A skilled and eloquent public speaker.
    • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. [] The First Part [], 2nd edition, part 1, London: [] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, [], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
      Tam[burlaine]. Then ſhall we fight couragiouſlye with them?
      Or looke you, I ſhould play the Orator?
      Tech[elles]. No: cowards and faint-hearted runawaies,
      Looke for orations when the foe is neere.
      Our ſwordes shall play the Orators for vs.
  3. (obsolete) Someone sent to speak for someone else; an envoy, a messenger.
  4. (obsolete) A petitioner, a supplicant.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

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Further reading

African Romance

Etymology

From Latin ōrātor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔˈraː.tɔr/

Noun

orator m

  1. orator, speaker

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch orateur, orator, from Latin orator.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɔrat̪ɔr]
  • Hyphenation: ora‧tor

Noun

orator (plural orator-orator)

  1. orator

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

From ōrō +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

Noun

ōrātor m (genitive ōrātōris, feminine ōrātrīx); third declension

  1. An orator, speaker.
  2. A spokesman, spokesperson.
  3. An ambassador (one entrusted with an oral message))

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative ōrātor ōrātōrēs
genitive ōrātōris ōrātōrum
dative ōrātōrī ōrātōribus
accusative ōrātōrem ōrātōrēs
ablative ōrātōre ōrātōribus
vocative ōrātor ōrātōrēs

Descendants

  • African Romance: orator
  • Catalan: orador
  • French: orateur
  • Galician: orador
  • Italian: oratore
  • Piedmontese: orator
  • Polish: orator
  • Portuguese: orador
  • Romanian: orator
  • Russian: ора́тор (orátor)
  • Spanish: orador

References

  • orator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • orator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "orator", 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)
  • orator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to sketch the ideal of an orator: imaginem perfecti oratoris adumbrare
    • to be considered the foremost orator: primum or principem inter oratores locum obtinere
    • to say only a few words: pauca dicere (pauca verba dicere only of the orator)
  • orator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • orator in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • orator”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ōrātor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔˈra.tɔr/
  • Rhymes: -atɔr
  • Syllabification: o‧ra‧tor

Noun

orator m pers (female equivalent oratorka, related adjective oratorski)

  1. (literary) orator, oratist, wordsmith (skilled and eloquent public speaker)
    Synonyms: krasomówca, retor
    Hypernym: mówca

Declension

Derived terms

nouns
  • oratorstwo
adjectives
  • oratoryjny
adverbs
  • oratorsko
nouns

Further reading

  • orator in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • orator in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin orator or French orateur.

Noun

orator m (plural oratori, feminine equivalent oratoare)

  1. orator, speaker

Declension

Declension of orator
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative orator oratorul oratori oratorii
genitive-dative orator oratorului oratori oratorilor
vocative oratorule oratorilor

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ǒraːtor/
  • Hyphenation: o‧ra‧tor

Noun

òrātor m anim (Cyrillic spelling о̀ра̄тор)

  1. orator

Declension

Declension of orator
singular plural
nominative orator oratori
genitive oratora oratora
dative oratoru oratorima
accusative oratora oratore
vocative oratore oratori
locative oratoru oratorima
instrumental oratorom oratorima

Swedish

Noun

orator c

  1. an orator

Declension

References