paritor

English

Etymology

Compare apparitor and Latin paritor (“servant, attendant”).

Noun

paritor (plural paritors)

Obsolete form of apparitor.
- Dryden
  summoned by an host of paritors

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for paritor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

airport

Latin

Verb

paritor

second-person singular future passive imperative of pariō
third-person singular future passive imperative of pariō

References

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

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