negator

From negate +‎ -or, or directly from Latin negātor.

• IPA^(key): /nəˈɡeɪtəɹ/
• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

negator (plural negators)

1. One who, or that which, negates.
2. (grammar) A word (or other structural element) which causes negation (such as the word not in English).

• NOR gate, argento-, teragon, tronage

From negō (“deny, refuse”) +‎ -tor.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /neˈɡaː.tor/, [nɛˈɡäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /neˈɡa.tor/, [neˈɡäːt̪or]

negātor m (genitive negātōris); third declension

1. a denier; apostate

Third-declension noun.

• negātōrius

• negātiō
• negātīvē
• negātīvus

• French: négateur
• Italian: negatore
• Occitan: negador
• Portuguese: negador
• Romanian: negator
• Spanish: negador

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

Borrowed from French négateur. By surface analysis, nega +‎ -tor.

negator m (plural negatori)

1. negator, denier detractor

• IPA^(key): /něɡaːtor/
• Hyphenation: ne‧ga‧tor

nègātor m (Cyrillic spelling нѐга̄тор)

1. negator, denier