sectator

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin sectātor, from sector, frequentative of sequor (follow).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sectator (plural sectators)

  1. (now rare) A follower, a disciple; someone who follows a particular school; partisan.
    • 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, section II:
      But that the Earth, Water, Air, are of a nature equally constituted immoveable about the centre, is it not the opinion of your self, Aristotle, Ptolomy, and all their sectators?

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Latin

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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sectātor m (genitive sectātōris, feminine sectātrīx); third declension

  1. follower, attendant, adherent

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sectātor sectātōrēs
Genitive sectātōris sectātōrum
Dative sectātōrī sectātōribus
Accusative sectātōrem sectātōrēs
Ablative sectātōre sectātōribus
Vocative sectātor sectātōrēs

Verb

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sectātor

  1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of sector

Further reading

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  • sectator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • sectator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sectator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French sectateur.

Noun

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sectator m (plural sectatori, feminine equivalent sectatoare)

  1. sectator

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References

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  • sectator in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN