probator

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

probator (plural probators)

  1. An examiner; an approver.
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  2. (law, Britain, obsolete) One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it and accused his accomplices in order to obtain pardon.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 probator in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology 1

From probō.

Noun

probātor m (genitive probātōris); third declension

  1. approver
  2. examiner
Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative probātor probātōrēs
Genitive probātōris probātōrum
Dative probātōrī probātōribus
Accusative probātōrem probātōrēs
Ablative probātōre probātōribus
Vocative probātor probātōrēs
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

probātor

  1. second-person singular future passive imperative of probō
  2. third-person singular future passive imperative of probō

References
  • probator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • probator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • probator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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