fornicator

== English == === Alternative forms === fornicatour (obsolete) === Etymology === From Middle English fornicatour, from Medieval Latin fornicātor. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfɔː(ɹ).nɪ.keɪ.tə(ɹ)/ === Noun === fornicator (plural fornicators) An unmarried person who engages in sexual intercourse, especially when considered to be of an illicit or illegal nature. Coordinate term: adulterer 1917, Maulana Muhammad Ali (translator), Qu’ran 24:2 (As for) the fornicatress and the fornicator, flog each of them, (giving) a hundred stripes, and let not pity for them detain you in the matter of obedience to Allah, if you believe in Allah and the last day, and let a party of believers witness their chastisement. ==== Synonyms ==== See also Thesaurus:libertine ==== Related terms ==== fornicatress, fornicatresses f (very rare) fornicatrix, fornicatrices f (very rare) ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Etymology === From fornicor (“to fornicate”) +‎ -tor. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fɔr.nɪˈkaː.tɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [for.niˈkaː.tor] === Noun === fornicātor m (genitive fornicātōris, feminine fornicātrīx); third declension fornicator (male) ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Synonyms ==== fornicārius ==== Related terms ==== fornicātrīx ==== Descendants ==== === References === “fornicator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "fornicator", 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) “fornicator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from French fornicateur. === Noun === fornicator m (plural fornicatori) fornicator Synonym: desfrânat ==== Declension ==== === References === fornicator in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN