petitor

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

petitor (plural petitors)

  1. (law) The claimant or plaintiff in ancient legal systems.

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

petītor m (genitive petītōris); third declension

  1. seeker, striver
  2. applicant, candidate
  3. claimant, plaintiff
  4. suitor, wooer

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative petītor petītōrēs
genitive petītōris petītōrum
dative petītōrī petītōribus
accusative petītōrem petītōrēs
ablative petītōre petītōribus
vocative petītor petītōrēs

Verb

petitor

  1. second-person singular future passive imperative of petō
  2. third-person singular future passive imperative of petō

References

  • petitor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • petitor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • petitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • petitor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • petitor in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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