English

Noun

visitator ‎(plural visitators)

1. An apostolic visitor.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /wiː.siˈtaː.tor/, [wiː.sɪˈtaː.tɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vi.siˈta.tor/, [vi.siˈtaː.tor]

Etymology 1

Derived from vīsitō ‎(“I go to see, visit”) +‎ -ātor ‎(“-er”, agent noun suffix).

Noun

vīsitātor m ‎(genitive vīsitātōris); third declension

1. (Late Latin) (frequent) visitor

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• Italian: visitatore

Etymology 2

Non-lemma forms.

Verb

vīsitātor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of vīsitō
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of vīsitō

References

• visitator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• VISITATOR in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “visitator”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.