secutor

== Latin == === Alternative forms === sequūtor === Etymology === From sequor (“to follow”) + -tor (“-er”). === Noun === secūtor m (genitive secūtōris, feminine secūtrīx); third declension follower, pursuer (gladiatorial combat) secutor (a kind of light-armed gladiator who fought with the net-fighters retiarii (pursuing them)) ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== → Italian: secutore → Old French: suytour (semi-learned)→ Middle English: sutourEnglish: suitor === References === “secutor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “secutor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "secutor", 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) “secutor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “secutor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers