apparitor

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Latin appāritor (public servant), from appareo (I wait upon).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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apparitor (plural apparitors)

  1. (historical) An officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.
    • 1857, Thomas De Quincey, Richard Bentley:
      Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world.
  2. A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court.
    • 1797, Richard Burn, Ecclesiastical Law:
      a monition be awarded to an apparitor, to summon a man

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From appāreō (wait upon).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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appāritor m (genitive appāritōris); third declension

  1. a gatekeeper
    Synonym: cūstos
  2. a public servant
    Synonym: familiāris
  3. a servant, secretary, lictor, deputy

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative appāritor appāritōrēs
Genitive appāritōris appāritōrum
Dative appāritōrī appāritōribus
Accusative appāritōrem appāritōrēs
Ablative appāritōre appāritōribus
Vocative appāritor appāritōrēs
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Descendants

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  • French: appariteur

References

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