different between palpate vs palpator

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin palp?tus, perfect passive participle of palp? (“touch softly”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?l?p?t, IPA^(key): /?pælpe?t/

Verb

palpate (third-person singular simple present palpates, present participle palpating, simple past and past participle palpated)

1. To examine or otherwise explore through touch, particularly (medicine) in reference to an area or organ of the human body.
   • 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, The New Yorker, "The Mountains of Pi":

     David reached inside with his fingers and palpated a logic board.

   I palpated his expired heart.

Synonyms

• touch

Translations

Adjective

palpate (not comparable)

1. Of palp, or having palp.

Related terms

• palp
• palpability
• palpable
• palpation
• palpiform
• palpitate
• palpitation

Further reading

• palpate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• palpate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Italian

Noun

palpate f

1. plural of palpata

Verb

palpate

1. second-person plural present indicative of palpare
2. second-person plural imperative of palpare
3. feminine plural of palpato

Latin

Verb

palp?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of palp?

English

Etymology

Latin, meaning "stroker".

Noun

palpator (plural palpators)

1. One who palpates.
2. A device for palpating.
3. (zoology, dated) One of a family of clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary palpi.

Latin

Etymology

From palp? (“touch softly, stroke; flatter”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pal?pa?.tor/, [pä???pä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pal?pa.tor/, [p?l?p??t??r]

Noun

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

1. stroker
2. (figuratively) cajoler, flatterer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (flatterer): palp?

Related terms

Descendants

• Catalan: palpator

References

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