munitor
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [muːˈniː.tɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [muˈniː.tor]
Noun
mūnītor m (genitive mūnītōris); third declension
- 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.
- Ab Romanis nec opus intermissum—triarii erant, qui muniebant—et ab hastatis principibusque, qui pro munitoribus intenti armatique steterunt, proelium initum.
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
- 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.