different between joculatory vs joculator

English

Etymology

Latin joculatorius.

Adjective

joculatory (comparative more joculatory, superlative most joculatory)

1. (obsolete) Droll; sportive.

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English

Etymology

From Latin. Doublet of juggler and jongleur.

Noun

joculator (plural joculators)

1. (obsolete) A jester; a joker.
   • 1801, Joseph Strutt, The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England

     The joculators' were sometimes excellent tumblers; yet, generally speaking, I believe that vaulting, tumbling, and balancing, were not exectued by the chieftan of the gleeman's company, but by some of his confederates

Synonyms

• joculatrix (specifically female)

References

• joculator in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Latin

Noun

jocul?tor m (genitive jocul?t?ris); third declension

1. Alternative form of iocul?tor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

• joculator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• joculator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette