rhetor

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English rethor, from Old French retor and Latin rhētor, rētor, rēthor (“teacher of rhetoric, rhetorician”), from Ancient Greek ῥήτωρ (rhḗtōr). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɹiːtə(ɹ)/ Rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ) === Noun === rhetor (plural rhetors) (archaic) A rhetorician. 1643, Henry Hammond, Christ and Barabbas (a sermon) Your hearing , which is mostly the fairest part of you , what is it but as of a rhetor at a desk , to commend or dislike , the same which you have as well for the stage as the pulpit , a plaudit or an hiss === References === “rhetor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Anagrams === Rother, rethor, rother == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek ῥήτωρ (rhḗtōr). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈrʰeː.tɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈrɛː.tor] === Noun === rhētor m (genitive rhētoris); third declension teacher of rhetoric. (derogatory) orator, rhetorician. ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== rhētorica rhētoricē rhētoricor rhētoricus rhētorissō ==== Descendants ==== → English: rhetor → French: rhéteur Italian: retore Sicilian: rituri → Spanish: rétor === References === “rhetor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “rhetor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “rhetor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. Professor Kidd, et al. Collins Gem Latin Dictionary. HarperCollins Publishers (Glasgow: 2004). →ISBN. page 306.