laudator

See also: lăudător

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin laudator.

Noun

laudator (plural laudators)

1. One who lauds.
   • 1992, Historia, page 293:

     As in most speeches, exaggeration and embellishment were standard devices by which the laudator amplified his subject's virtues or vices.

   • 2007, Hanna Boeke, The Value of Victory in Pindar's Odes, page 172:

     To the extent that he is visible at all, the poet fulfils the role of laudator, not commentator on or representative of a world view.

   • 2012, Tuana Dowan, Thena: Fight for the Future, page 377:

     When he made all those wrong decisions in his business and private life, he expected me to be a sycophant, a laudator,or a yes-man.

Further reading

• “laudator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “laudator”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “laudator”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• adulator

Latin

Etymology

From laudō +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /lau̯ˈdaː.tor/, [ɫ̪äu̯ˈd̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /lau̯ˈda.tor/, [läu̯ˈd̪äːt̪or]

Noun

laudātor m (genitive laudātōris, feminine laudātrīx); third declension

1. praiser, eulogizer, panegyrist

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	laudātor	laudātōrēs
Genitive	laudātōris	laudātōrum
Dative	laudātōrī	laudātōribus
Accusative	laudātōrem	laudātōrēs
Ablative	laudātōre	laudātōribus
Vocative	laudātor	laudātōrēs

Descendants

• → English: laudator
• Italian: lodatore
• Romanian: lăudător

Verb

laudātor

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

References

• “laudator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “laudator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• laudator 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)
• laudator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Anagrams

• adūlātor