scrutator
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin scrūtātor.
Noun
scrutator (plural scrutators)
- A person who scrutinizes or investigates.
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [skruːˈtaː.tɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [skruˈt̪aː.t̪or]
Noun
scrūtātor m (genitive scrūtātōris); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | scrūtātor | scrūtātōrēs |
| genitive | scrūtātōris | scrūtātōrum |
| dative | scrūtātōrī | scrūtātōribus |
| accusative | scrūtātōrem | scrūtātōrēs |
| ablative | scrūtātōre | scrūtātōribus |
| vocative | scrūtātor | scrūtātōrēs |
Descendants
- Catalan: escrutador
- → English: scrutator
- Galician: escrutador
- Italian: scrutatore
- Portuguese: escrutador
- Spanish: escrutador
Verb
scrūtātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of scrūtō
References
- “scrutator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "scrutator", 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)
- scrutator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.