tractator

== English == === Etymology === From Latin tractātor (“manager, homilist”). === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /tɹækˈteɪ.tə/ === Noun === tractator (plural tractators) (historical) In medieval commerce, the person who handles or transports merchandise on behalf of an investor; an entrepreneur. A person who writes tracts. A Tractarian. ==== Related terms ==== tract ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === attractor == Latin == === Etymology === From tractō (“handle, manage, transact”) +‎ -tor. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [trakˈtaː.tɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [trakˈtaː.tor] === Noun === tractātor m (genitive tractātōris, feminine tractātrīx); third declension (Classical Latin) masseur (Classical Latin) imperial official, manager (Late Latin) commentator, homilist (Late Latin) accountant (Medieval Latin) tractator, entrepreneur (a person responsible for shipping and handling merchandise on behalf of an investor) ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== English: tractator === Verb === tractātor second/third-person singular future passive imperative of tractō === References === “tractator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "tractator", 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) “tractator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “tractator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers