urinator

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈjʊəɹɪˌneɪtə/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈjʊəɹɪˌneɪtɚ/, [-ɾɚ] Hyphenation: uri‧nat‧or === Etymology 1 === From urinate +‎ -or (suffix forming an agent noun, indicating a person who does something). ==== Noun ==== urinator (plural urinators) A person who urinates. ===== Alternative forms ===== urinater ===== Related terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Latin ūrīnātor (“diver”), from ūrīnārī + -tor (suffix forming a (masculine) agent noun). Ūrīnārī is the present active infinitive of ūrīnor (“to plunge under water, dive”), possibly from ūrīna (“urine; water (?)”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- (“to moisten; to flow”). ==== Noun ==== urinator (plural urinators) (obsolete) A diver, especially someone who searches for things underwater. ===== Related terms ===== urinant ===== Translations ===== === References === === Further reading === underwater diving on Wikipedia.Wikipedia urination on Wikipedia.Wikipedia urinator (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == Latin == === Etymology === From ūrīnor +‎ -tor. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [uː.riːˈnaː.tɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [u.riˈnaː.tor] === Noun === ūrīnātor m (genitive ūrīnātōris, feminine ūrīnātrīx); third declension diver ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Quotations ==== === Verb === ūrīnātor second/third-person singular future active imperative of ūrīnor ==== Descendants ==== Translingual: Gyrinus urinator – one of the whirligig beetles Translingual (derivation): Pelecanoides urinatrix – a species of petrel. English: urinator === References === “urinator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “urinator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “urinator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “urinator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers