provocator

Borrowed from Latin provocator. Doublet of provocateur.

provocator (plural provocators)

1. One who engages in provocation.

• provoke

From prōvocō (“call forth, challenge, provoke”) +‎ -tor.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /proː.woˈkaː.tor/, [proː.wɔˈkaː.tɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pro.voˈka.tor/, [pro.voˈkaː.tor]

prōvocātor m (genitive prōvocātōris); third declension

1. (in combat) challenger

Third declension.

• gladiātor

• rētiārius
• secūtor
• Thrax

• → English: provocateur
• → French: provocateur
• Italian: provocatore
• → Russian: провокатор (provokátor)
• Spanish: provocador (might otherwise be borrowed)

• provocator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• provocator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• provocator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• provocator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette