different between vituperator vs vituperous

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

English

Etymology

From French vitupéreux, from Late Latin vituperosus, from Latin vituperare (“to blame, censure”), from vitium (“fault, defect”) + parare (“to furnish, provide, contrive”).

Adjective

vituperous (comparative more vituperous, superlative most vituperous)

1. (rare) Vituperative.
2. (rare) Worthy of blame.

Quotations

• 1682: A. Marsh, The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New-married Couple

  Yet howsoever though this is true, nevertheless I must furnish the delicate stomackt Ladies with some sort of weapons, that they may be in a posture of defending themselves against their vituperous enemies.

• 1905: Charles Klein, The Lion and The Mouse, Chapter III

  (...) their drivers vociferating torrents of vituperous abuse on every man, woman or beast unfortunate enough to get in their way.

Synonyms

• vituperative

Related terms

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

Further reading

• vituperous at OneLook Dictionary Search