sectator

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin sectātor, from sector, frequentative of sequor (“follow”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɛkˈteɪtə/

Noun

sectator (plural sectators)

1. (now rare) A follower, a disciple; someone who follows a particular school; partisan.
   • 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, II:

     But that the Earth, Water, Air, are of a nature equally constituted immoveable about the centre, is it not the opinion of your self, Aristotle, Ptolomy, and all their sectators?

References

• “sectator” in John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors, The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• carottes, cotreats, crostate

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sekˈtaː.tor/, [sɛkˈtaː.tɔr]

Noun

sectātor m (genitive sectātōris); third declension

1. follower, attendant, adherent

Verb

sectātor

1. second-person and third-person singular future active imperative of sector

Further reading

• sectator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sectator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sectator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)