provocator

Partly borrowed from Middle French provocateur and its etymon Latin prōvocātor, and partly from provocate +‎ -or.^[1] Doublet of provocateur.

provocator (plural provocators)

1. One who engages in provocation.

   Synonyms: provocant, provocateur

   Hyponym: provocatrix

• provoke

From prōvocō (“call forth, challenge, provoke”) +‎ -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [proː.wɔˈkaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pro.voˈkaː.t̪or]

prōvocātor m (genitive prōvocātōris, feminine prōvocātrīx); third declension

1. challenger (in combat)

   Hypernym: gladiātor

   Coordinate terms: rētiārius, secūtor, Thrax

Third-declension noun.

• “provocator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “provocator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "provocator", 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)
• provocator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from French provocateur. Equivalent to provoca +‎ -tor.

provocator m or n (feminine singular provocatoare, masculine plural provocatori, feminine and neuter plural provocatoare)

1. provocative