pollinctor
English
Etymology
References
- “pollinctor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /polˈliːnk.tor/, [pɔlˈlʲiːŋkt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /polˈlink.tor/, [polˈliŋkt̪or]
Noun
pollīnctor m (genitive pollīnctōris); third declension
- undertaker; a person who prepared corpses for a funeral.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “pollinctor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pollinctor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “pollinctor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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