different between celebrant vs celebrator

English

Etymology

French célébrant

Pronunciation

Noun

celebrant (plural celebrants)

1. A person who officiates at a religious ceremony, especially a marriage or the Eucharist.
   • 1851, John Bate Cardale, Catholic apostolic church services, Readings upon the Liturgy and Other Divine Offices of the Church, page 140,

     The most appropriate mode of ordering the holy vessels at this part of the service, previously to preparing them for the communion, is for the celebrant to place both the patten and the chalice in the middle of the altar, in a line with himself, the chalice behind and the patten in front; for they are presented before God as one Eucharist.
2. (Australia, New Zealand) A person who conducts formal ceremonies in the community, particularly weddings, baby namings, renewals of wedding vows and funerals.
   • 2006, Timoshenko Aslanides, Occasions for Words: Poems for Birth, Marriage, Death and Much Between, page v,

     When we first began as celebrants back in 1973, we had no poetry in our heads at all.

3. A person who is celebrating something.
   • 1977 February 10, Gerri Major, Gerri Major's Society World: Inaugural Balls Have Largest Black Participation Ever, JET, page 39,

     Once inside, about all that the celebrants could do was nod their heads to the music and pat their feet.

   • 1997, Thomas Andrew Bailey, David M. Kennedy, The American Spirit: To 1877, page 12,

     The procession began, and the celebrants filed into the temple patio to dance the Dance of the Serpent.

Derived terms

Translations

Catalan

Verb

celebrant

1. present participle of celebrar

Latin

Verb

celebrant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of celebr?

English

Etymology

celebrate +? -or

Noun

celebrator (plural celebrators)

1. A person who celebrates or praises.

See also

• celebrant

Latin

Verb

celebr?tor

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

References

• celebrator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• celebrator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• celebrator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• celebrator in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Romanian

Etymology

celebra +? -tor

Noun

celebrator m (plural celebratori)

1. celebrant

Declension