confirmator
English
Etymology
Noun
confirmator (plural confirmators)
- (archaic) # Someone or something that confirms; a confirmer.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- the definitive confirmator and test of things uncertain
References
- “confirmator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kõː.fiːrˈmaː.tɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [koɱ.firˈmaː.t̪or]
Etymology 1
cōnfīrmō (“to confirm, assert”) + -tor
Noun
cōnfīrmātor m (genitive cōnfīrmātōris); third declension
- one who, or that which, confirms, establishes or assures something
- cōnfīrmātor pecūniae ― a surety
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cōnfīrmātor | cōnfīrmātōrēs |
| genitive | cōnfīrmātōris | cōnfīrmātōrum |
| dative | cōnfīrmātōrī | cōnfīrmātōribus |
| accusative | cōnfīrmātōrem | cōnfīrmātōrēs |
| ablative | cōnfīrmātōre | cōnfīrmātōribus |
| vocative | cōnfīrmātor | cōnfīrmātōrēs |
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
cōnfirmātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of cōnfirmō
References
- “confirmator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “confirmator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- confirmator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.