ruminator

English

Etymology

ruminate +‎ -or

Noun

ruminator (plural ruminators)

  1. One who ruminates; one who meditates or reflects.
    • 2009, January 25, “Maria Russo”, in Unhappy Together‎:
      The narrator is a reader and ruminator, a provocateur.

Latin

Verb

rūminātor

  1. second-person singular future active imperative of rūminor
  2. third-person singular future active imperative of rūminor

References
  • ruminator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ruminator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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