flator

== Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfɫaː.tɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈflaː.tor] === Etymology 1 === From flō (“blow”) +‎ -tor (agentive noun suffix), i.e. “blower”. ==== Noun ==== flātor m (genitive flātōris); third declension flautist Synonym: tībīcen caster (of metal), coiner c. 2nd century CE, Sextus Pomponius, quoted in Digest 1.2.2.30: (Medieval Latin) bellows-worker (New Latin, generally) blower, that which blows ===== Usage notes ===== The general sense of “blower” is etymologically transparent, and likely to have been used in Classical times, but is only directly attested in New Latin. ===== Inflection ===== Third-declension noun. ===== Descendants ===== Vulgar Latin: *flātor (“odour, that which blows”) Italian: fiatore Old French: flaour (“smell, odour”) → Middle English: flavour English: flavour, flavor === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== flātor second/third-person singular future passive imperative of flō === References === “flator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "flator", 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) flator in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung “flator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “flator”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC == Swedish == === Noun === flator indefinite plural of flata