pollinctor

English

Etymology

Latin pollinctor

Noun

pollinctor (plural pollinctors)

  1. undertaker

References
  • pollinctor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Latin

Etymology

From pollingō (“wash a corpse in preparation for a funeral”) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /polˈliːnk.tor/, [pɔlˈlʲiːŋkt̪ɔr]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /polˈlink.tor/, [polˈliŋkt̪or]

Noun

pollīnctor m (genitive pollīnctōris); third declension

  1. undertaker; a person who prepared corpses for a funeral.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pollīnctor pollīnctōrēs
Genitive pollīnctōris pollīnctōrum
Dative pollīnctōrī pollīnctōribus
Accusative pollīnctōrem pollīnctōrēs
Ablative pollīnctōre pollīnctōribus
Vocative pollīnctor pollīnctōrēs

References
  • “pollinctor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pollinctor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “pollinctor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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