confirmator

English

Etymology

Noun

confirmator (plural confirmators)

One who, or that which, confirms; a confirmer.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
  the definitive confirmator and test of things uncertain

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /kon.fiːrˈmaː.tor/, [kõːfiːrˈmäːt̪ɔr]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.firˈma.tor/, [koɱfirˈmäːt̪or]

Etymology 1

cōnfīrmō (“to confirm, assert”) +‎ -tor

Noun

cōnfīrmātor m (genitive cōnfīrmātōris); third declension

one who, or that which, confirms, establishes or assures something
cōnfīrmātor pecūniae ― a surety

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōnfīrmātor	cōnfīrmātōrēs
Genitive	cōnfīrmātōris	cōnfīrmātōrum
Dative	cōnfīrmātōrī	cōnfīrmātōribus
Accusative	cōnfīrmātōrem	cōnfīrmātōrēs
Ablative	cōnfīrmātōre	cōnfīrmātōribus
Vocative	cōnfīrmātor	cōnfīrmātōrēs

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cōnfirmātor

second/third-person singular future passive imperative of cōnfirmō

References

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

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