certator

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin certō

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Latin certātor

From certō (“fight, compete, dispute”) + -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɛrˈtaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃerˈtaː.tor]

Noun

certātor m (genitive certātōris); third declension

1. (Late Latin, rare) a disputant

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	certātor	certātōrēs
genitive	certātōris	certātōrum
dative	certātōrī	certātōribus
accusative	certātōrem	certātōrēs
ablative	certātōre	certātōribus
vocative	certātor	certātōrēs

Verb

certātor

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

References

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