bellator

Latin

Alternative forms

• duellātor

Etymology

From bellō (“wage or carry out war; fight”) +‎ -tor, from bellum (“war”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /belˈlaː.tor/, [bɛlˈlʲäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /belˈla.tor/, [belˈläːt̪or]

Noun

bellātor m (genitive bellātōris, feminine bellātrīx); third declension

1. warrior, soldier, fighter

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	bellātor	bellātōrēs
genitive	bellātōris	bellātōrum
dative	bellātōrī	bellātōribus
accusative	bellātōrem	bellātōrēs
ablative	bellātōre	bellātōribus
vocative	bellātor	bellātōrēs

Synonyms

• (soldier): mīles

Derived terms

• bellātōrius

Related terms

• bellātulus
• bellāx
• bellicōsus
• bellicus
• bellifer
• belligerātor
• belligerō
• belligeror
• bellipotēns
• bellisonus
• bellō
• bellor
• bellōsus
• bellum

 

References

• “bellator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bellator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bellator 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)
• bellator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.