different between vituperable vs vituperator

English

Etymology

From Latin v?t?p?r?b?lis: compare French vitupérable.

Adjective

vituperable (comparative more vituperable, superlative most vituperable)

1. Liable to, or deserving, vituperation or severe censure.

Spanish

Adjective

vituperable (plural vituperables)

1. censureable; reproachable

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vituper?tor.

Noun

vituperator (plural vituperators)

1. One who vituperates, or censures abusively.

Synonyms

• censurer, detractor

Related terms

• vituperable
• vituperant
• vituperate
• vituperation
• vituperative
• vituperatively
• vituperatory
• vituperous
• vituperously

Translations

References

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

Latin

Etymology

vituper? (“to scold, blame”) +? -tor

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u?i.tu.pe?ra?.tor/, [u??t??p???ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vi.tu.pe?ra.tor/, [vit?up?????t??r]

Noun

vituper?tor m (genitive vituper?t?ris, feminine vituper?trix); third declension

1. scolder, blamer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• English: vituperator
• French: vitupérateur
• Italian: vituperatore

References

• vituperator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vituperator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vituperator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette