excubitor

== Latin == === Etymology === From excubo + -tor. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛkˈskʊ.bɪ.tɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ekˈskuː.bi.tor] === Noun === excubitor m (genitive excubitōris); third declension guard, sentinel, watchman An imperial guard of early Byzantine emperors. ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. === References === “excubitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “excubitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "excubitor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “excubitor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.