sectator

Borrowed from Latin sectātor, from sector, frequentative of sequor (“follow”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɛkˈteɪtə/

sectator (plural sectators)

1. (now rare) A follower, a disciple; someone who follows a particular school; partisan.
   • 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, section II:

     But that the Earth, Water, Air, are of a nature equally constituted immoveable about the centre, is it not the opinion of your self, Aristotle, Ptolomy, and all their sectators?

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “sectator”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

• carottes, cotreats, crostate

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sekˈtaː.tor/, [s̠ɛkˈt̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sekˈta.tor/, [sekˈt̪äːt̪or]

sectātor m (genitive sectātōris, feminine sectātrīx); third declension

1. follower, attendant, adherent

Third-declension noun.

sectātor

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

• “sectator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sectator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sectator 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)

Borrowed from French sectateur.

sectator m (plural sectatori, feminine equivalent sectatoare)

1. sectator

• sectator in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN