receptator

Latin

Etymology

From receptō +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [rɛ.kɛpˈtaː.tɔr]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [re.t͡ʃepˈt̪aː.t̪or]

Noun

receptātor m (genitive receptātōris); third declension

A shelterer; someone who provides refuge.
Synonym: receptor

Coordinate term: receptrix

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	receptātor	receptātōrēs
genitive	receptātōris	receptātōrum
dative	receptātōrī	receptātōribus
accusative	receptātōrem	receptātōrēs
ablative	receptātōre	receptātōribus
vocative	receptātor	receptātōrēs

Descendants

→? Old French: recetëor (possibly inherited)
- Middle French: recepteur
- → Middle English: recettour
  - English: receipter, receiptor (obsolete)
  - Middle Scots: resettar, ressettar
    - → English: resetter
  - ⇒ Middle English: receptour
    - English: receptor
      - → Middle Scots: recepter, receptor
→ Middle French: receptateur
→ Italian: ricettatore
→ Old Occitan: receptador
→ Portuguese: receptador
→ Spanish: receptador

References

“receptator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
"receptator", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
“receptator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.