fornicator

• fornicatour (obsolete)

fornicate +‎ -or.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fɔː(ɹ).nɪ.keɪ.tə(ɹ)/

fornicator (plural fornicators)

1. (derogatory) An unmarried person who engages in sexual intercourse, especially when considered to be of an illicit or illegal nature.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 1 Corinthians 6:9–10:

     Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Qu’ran 24:2, M.H. Shakir translation.

     (As for) the fornicatress and the fornicator, flog each of them, (giving) a hundred stripes, and let not pity for them detain you in the matter of obedience to Allah, if you believe in Allah and the last day, and let a party of believers witness their chastisement.

• See also Thesaurus:libertine

• fornicatress, fornicatresses f (very rare)
• fornacatrix, fornacatrices f (very rare)

Derived from fornicor (“to fornicate”).[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /for.niˈkaː.tor/, [fɔr.nɪˈkaː.tɔr]

fornicātor m (genitive fornicātōris); third declension

1. fornicator (male)

Third declension.

• fornicārius

• fornicātrīx

• French: fornicateur
• Italian: fornicatore

• fornicator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fornicator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fornicator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette