different between obsequious vs assentator

English

Etymology

From Latin obsequi?sus (“complaisant, obsequious”) , from obsequium (“compliance”), from obsequor (“comply with, yield to”), from ob (“in the direction of, towards”) + sequor (“follow”) (see sequel).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?b?si?kwi.?s/

Adjective

obsequious (comparative more obsequious, superlative most obsequious)

1. (archaic) Obedient; compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.
2. Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey instructions; fawning, subservient, servile.
   • 1927, Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, p. 20

     Translation falls especially short of this conceit which carries the whole flamboyance of the Spanish language. It was intended as an obsequious flattery of the Condesa, and was untrue.
3. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to obsequies, funereal.

Synonyms

• (obedient): See also Thesaurus:obedient
• (fawning or subservient): fawning, ingratiating, servile, slavish, sycophantic, truckling, smarmy, asskissing ; see also Thesaurus:sycophantic

Derived terms

• obsequiously
• obsequiousness

Related terms

Translations

References

English

Etymology

Latin, from assentari (“to assent constantly”).

Noun

assentator (plural assentators)

1. An obsequious flatterer.

Latin

Alternative forms

• adsent?tor

Etymology

From assentor +? -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /as.sen?ta?.tor/, [äs???n??t?ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /as.sen?ta.tor/, [?s??n??t???t??r]

Noun

assent?tor m (genitive assent?t?ris, feminine assent?tr?x); third declension

1. yes man
2. flatterer, toady

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Verb

assent?tor

1. second-person singular future active imperative of assentor
2. third-person singular future active imperative of assentor

References

• assentator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• assentator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• assentator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.