viator

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin viātor (“traveler”). === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /vaɪˈeɪt.əɹ/, /vaɪˈeɪ.tɔɹ/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /vʌɪˈeɪtə/ Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ) === Noun === viator (plural viators or viatores) (rare) A wayfarer, traveler. (Can we date this quote?), University of California, Los Angeles. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Viator, Univ of California Press (→ISBN), page 25: [The] notion of man as viator in search of perfection in history thus did not function as a legitimating idea for progress. (rare, historical) An apparitor, a summoner: a minor Roman official. A person who is subject to a viatical insurance policy or a viatical settlement. === References === Websters Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary, 1989. == Latin == === Etymology === From viō (“to travel”) +‎ -tor, from via (“road, path”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wiˈaː.tɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [viˈaː.tor] === Noun === viātor m (genitive viātōris, feminine viātrīx); third declension traveller, wayfarer Coordinate term: viātrīx summoner, messenger: an officer employed by the state for taking messages, etc. ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== via === References === “viator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “viator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "viator", 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) “viator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “viator”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin