cavillator

== Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ka.wɪlˈlaː.tɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ka.vilˈlaː.tor] === Etymology 1 === From cavillor (“to jeer, cavil”) + -tor. ==== Noun ==== cavillātor m (genitive cavillātōris); third declension one who jeers or mocks a caviller, sophist ===== Declension ===== Third-declension noun. === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== cavillātor second/third-person singular future active imperative of cavillor === References === “cavillator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “cavillator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “cavillator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.