munitor

Latin

Etymology

From mūniō +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

Noun

mūnītor m (genitive mūnītōris); third declension

  1. a fortification-worker, fortifier
    • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 7.23:
      Ab Romanis nec opus intermissum—triarii erant, qui muniebant—et ab hastatis principibusque, qui pro munitoribus intenti armatique steterunt, proelium initum.
      The works were not set aside by the Romans—triarii where there to fend off the enemy—and a fight broke out led by the hastati and principes, eager and fully-equiped, who had been placed before the fortification-workers.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative mūnītor mūnītōrēs
genitive mūnītōris mūnītōrum
dative mūnītōrī mūnītōribus
accusative mūnītōrem mūnītōrēs
ablative mūnītōre mūnītōribus
vocative mūnītor mūnītōrēs

Verb

mūnītor

  1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of mūniō

References

  • munitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • munitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • munitor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.