prevaricator

From prevaricate +‎ -or or Latin praevaricator: compare French prévaricateur.

prevaricator (plural prevaricators)

1. One who prevaricates.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 214:

     It was evident he took me for a perfectly shameless prevaricator.

2. (historical) An orator at the University of Cambridge fulfilling a similar function to the terrae filius at Oxford.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [prɛ.waː.rɪˈkaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pre.va.riˈkaː.t̪or]

prevāricātor m (genitive prevāricātōris); third declension

1. alternative form of praevāricātor

Third-declension noun.

Borrowed from French prévaricateur or Latin praevaricator.

prevaricator m or n (feminine singular prevaricatoare, masculine plural prevaricatori, feminine and neuter plural prevaricatoare)

1. prevaricating

prevaricator m (plural prevaricatori)

1. prevaricator