different between adulator vs adulation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ad?l?tor.

Noun

adulator (plural adulators)

1. One who lavishes excessive praises or flattery; one who adulates.

Translations

Anagrams

• laudator

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.du??la?.tor/, [äd?u????ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.du?la.tor/, [?d?u?l??t??r]

Noun

ad?l?tor m (genitive ad?l?t?ris); third declension

1. a low cringing flatterer; a sycophant

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• English: adulator
• French: adulateur
• Italian: adulatore
• Portuguese: adulador
• Spanish: adulador

Verb

ad?l?tor

1. second-person singular future active imperative of ad?lor
2. third-person singular future active imperative of ad?lor

References

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

Anagrams

• laud?tor

Romanian

Etymology

From French adulateur

Noun

adulator m (plural adulatori)

1. worshiper

Declension

English

Etymology

From French adulation, from Latin adul?tio (“flattery”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æd???le???n/, /?ædj??le???n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æd???le???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

adulation (countable and uncountable, plural adulations)

1. Flattery; fulsome praise.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, ch. 1,

     It is still possible to discuss his place in art, and the adulation of his admirers is perhaps no less capricious than the disparagement of his detractors; [...]

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:flattery

Related terms

• adulate
• adulator
• adulatory

Translations

See also

• admiration
• adoration

Anagrams

• laudation

French

Etymology

From Latin adul?tio (“flattery”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.dy.la.sj??/

Noun

adulation f (plural adulations)

1. adulation

Related terms

• aduler
• adulateur

Further reading

• “adulation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).