accusator

== English == === Alternative forms === accusatour (obsolete, rare) === Etymology === From literary French accusateur, from Latin accūsātōrem, accusative singular of accūsātor (“accuser”). Doublet of accuser. === Noun === accusator (plural accusators) (archaic) A male accuser. ==== Related terms ==== === References === == Latin == === Etymology === From accūsāre (“blame, accuse”) +‎ -tor, from ad (“to, towards, at”) + causa (“cause, reason, account, lawsuit”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ak.kuːˈsaː.tɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ak.kuˈs̬aː.tor] === Noun === accūsātor m (genitive accūsātōris, feminine accūsātrīx); third declension accuser, plaintiff denouncer, informer ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== accūsātōrius accūsātrīx ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “accusator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “accusator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers