different between sacrificer vs sacrificator

English

Etymology

sacrifice +? -er

Noun

sacrificer (plural sacrificers)

1. Someone who sacrifices, one who makes a sacrifice.
   • c. 1599,, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene 1,^[1]

     Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius,

     To cut the head off and then hack the limbs,

     Like wrath in death and envy afterwards;

     For Antony is but a limb of Caesar:

     Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.

   • 1631, John Donne, “To the Countesse of Bedford” in Poems, London: John Marriot, 1633, p. ,^[2]

     In this you’have made the Court the Antipodes,

     And will’d your Delegate, the vulgar Sunne,

     To doe profane autumnall offices,

     Whilst here to you, wee sacrificers runne;

   • 1717, John Dryden (translator), Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books, London: Jacob Tonson, Book 12, p. 418,^[3]

     So, when some brawny Sacrificer knocks,

     Before an Altar led, an offer’d Ox,

     His Eye-balls rooted out, are thrown to Ground;

   • 1908, Helen Keller, The World I Live In, New York: Century, Chapter 3, p. 35,^[4]

     […] no sacrifice is valid unless the sacrificer lay his hand upon the head of the victim.

Synonyms

• sacrificant
• sacrificator
• sacrificatrix
• sacrificial priest
• sacrificial priestess
• sacrificing priest
• sacrificing priestess

Related terms

• self-sacrificer

Translations

Latin

Verb

sacrificer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of sacrific?

English

Etymology

From Latin sacrific?tor (“sacrificer”).

Noun

sacrificator (plural sacrificators)

1. sacrificant, sacrificer

Anagrams

• scarificator

Latin

Etymology

From sacrific? (“make or offer a sacrifice”), from sacer (“sacred, holy”) + faci? (“do, make”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sa.kri.fi?ka?.tor/, [s?äk??f??kä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sa.kri.fi?ka.tor/, [s?k?ifi?k??t??r]

Noun

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

1. A sacrificer, sacrificator, sacrificant.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

References

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

Romanian

Etymology

From French sacrificateur, from Latin sacrificator.

Noun

sacrificator m (plural sacrificatori)

1. sacrificer

Declension