English

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Etymology

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From incantate +‎ -or.

Noun

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incantator (plural incantators)

  1. One who works magic by means of incantation.
    • 1973, Muslim ibn Ḥajjāj al-Qushayrī, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, →ISBN:
      We landed at a place where a woman came to us and said: A scorpion has bitten the chief of the tribe. Is there any incantator amongst you?
    • 1856, Charles Hamilton Smith, The natural history of dogs:
      In the metamorphoses of the ancients, the wolf is conspicuous ; and that demons assume its shape, that sorcerers and incantators alternately pass from the human to the lupine form, is believed by the vulgar throughout Asia and Europe; slightly modified it is a common superstition in Abyssinia, and even among the Caffres.
    • 2005, Bayo Ogunjimi, Abdul Rasheed Naʼallah, Introduction to African Oral Literature and Performance, →ISBN, page 159:
      It is obvious that there is a situation of rivalry, since two legs are competing for a road, but the victory of the incantator is ascertained by the fact that flies swarm the excreta.
    • 2012, Melvyn Bragg, The Maid of Buttermere, →ISBN:
      Kitty's mother had been such a black-clothed incantator, full of rhyming recipes for ills and puddings, for scalds and weather and animal magic.

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Latin

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Etymology

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From incantō +‎ -tor.

Noun

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incantātor m (genitive incantātōris); third declension

  1. enchanter, spellcaster, conjurer, wizard
  2. soothsayer

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

Descendants

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  • Old Galician-Portuguese: encantador

Verb

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incantātor

  1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of incantō

References

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