disceptator
English
Etymology
From Latin disceptātor.
Noun
disceptator (plural disceptators)
- (obsolete) One who arbitrates or decides; a judge.
- 1675, John Smith, Christian Religion's Appeal from the Groundless Prejudices of the Sceptick to the Bar of Common Reason:
- the inquisitivediſceptators of this Age
References
- “disceptator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
Noun
disceptātor m (genitive disceptātōris); third declension
- arbitrator, umpire, judge
- Synonyms: iūdex, arbiter, spectātor
- Coordinate term: (female) disceptātrīx
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “disceptator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “disceptator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- disceptator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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