adorator

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.doːˈraː.tor/, [äd̪oːˈräːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.doˈra.tor/, [äd̪oˈräːt̪or]

Etymology 1

adōrō +‎ -tor

Noun

adōrātor m (genitive adōrātōris); third declension

1. worshipper

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	adōrātor	adōrātōrēs
Genitive	adōrātōris	adōrātōrum
Dative	adōrātōrī	adōrātōribus
Accusative	adōrātōrem	adōrātōrēs
Ablative	adōrātōre	adōrātōribus
Vocative	adōrātor	adōrātōrēs

Descendants

• Catalan: adorador
• French: adorateur
• Galician: adorador
• Italian: adoratore
• Occitan: adorator
• Polish: adorator
• Portuguese: adorador
• Spanish: adorador

Etymology 2

Verb

adōrātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of adōrō

References

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

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin adōrātor. By surface analysis, adorować +‎ -ator. First attested in 1745.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.dɔˈra.tɔr/

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• Rhymes: -atɔr
• Syllabification: a‧do‧ra‧tor

Noun

adorator m pers (female equivalent adoratorka)

1. (literary) adorer, admirer, wooer (one with romantic interests)

   Synonyms: absztyfikant, amant, fatygant, kawaler, wielbiciel

   namolny adorator ― clingy adorer

   natrętny adorator ― intrusive adorer

   tajemniczy adorator ― secret adorer

   anonimowy adorator ― anonymous adorer

   wianuszek adoratorów ― a chain of adorers

   tłum adoratorów ― a crowd of adorer

2. (religion) adorer, worshiper (one who adores God)

   wierny adorator ― faithful adorer

3. adorer, admirer (one who is enjoys something)

   Synonym: wielbiciel

Declension

Declension of adorator

	singular	plural
nominative	adorator	adoratorzy/adoratory (deprecative)
genitive	adoratora	adoratorów
dative	adoratorowi	adoratorom
accusative	adoratora	adoratorów
instrumental	adoratorem	adoratorami
locative	adoratorze	adoratorach
vocative	adoratorze	adoratorzy

Derived terms

adjective

• adoratorski

 

Related terms

adjective

• adoracyjny

 

adverb

• adoracyjnie

 

nouns

• adoracja
• adoracyjność
• adorant
• adorantka
• współadoracja

 

verbs

• adorować impf
• (Middle Polish) adoryzować impf
• poadorować pf
• (obsolete) uadorować pf
• (Middle Polish) wyadorować pf

 

Further reading

• adorator in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• adorator in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “adorator”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎^[1]
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “adorator”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎^[2]
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “adorator”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎^[3] (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 9

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French adorateur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.do.raˈtor/

Noun

adorator m (plural adoratori, feminine equivalent adoratoare)

1. admirer, adorer, worshiper

Declension

Declension of adorator

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) adorator	adoratorul	(niște) adoratori	adoratorii
genitive/dative	(unui) adorator	adoratorului	(unor) adoratori	adoratorilor
vocative	adoratorule		adoratorilor

Further reading

• adorator in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /adǒraːtor/
• Hyphenation: a‧do‧ra‧tor

Noun

adòrātor m (Cyrillic spelling адо̀ра̄тор)

1. (rare) adorer

   Synonym: obožavatelj

Declension

Declension of adorator

	singular	plural
nominative	adòrātor	adoratori
genitive	adoratora	adoratora
dative	adoratoru	adoratorima
accusative	adoratora	adoratore
vocative	adoratore	adoratori
locative	adoratoru	adoratorima
instrumental	adoratorom	adoratorima