vitilitigator

== Latin == === Etymology === Coined by Cato the Elder to describe his detractors (as attested by Pliny), from a compound of vitium (“fault, vice”) +‎ lītigātor (“disputant, litigant”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wɪ.tɪ.liː.tɪˈɡaː.tɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [vi.ti.li.tiˈɡaː.tor] === Noun === vitilītigātor m (genitive vitilītigātōris); third declension A captious critic or detractor. ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. === Further reading === “vitilitigator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “vitilitigator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. vitilitigator in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung