ruminator

English

Etymology

ruminate +‎ -or

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

ruminator (plural ruminators)

  1. One who ruminates; one who meditates or reflects.
    • 2009 January 25, Maria Russo, “Unhappy Together”, in New York Times‎:
      The narrator is a reader and ruminator, a provocateur.

Latin

Verb

rūminātor

  1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of rūminor

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