adulator

Borrowed from Latin adūlātor.

adulator (plural adulators)

1. One who lavishes excessive praises or flattery; one who adulates.

• laudator

adūlor (“to fawn upon, flatter”) +‎ -tor

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.duːˈlaː.tor/, [äd̪uːˈɫ̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.duˈla.tor/, [äd̪uˈläːt̪or]

adūlātor m (genitive adūlātōris); third declension

1. a low cringing flatterer; a sycophant

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	adūlātor	adūlātōrēs
Genitive	adūlātōris	adūlātōrum
Dative	adūlātōrī	adūlātōribus
Accusative	adūlātōrem	adūlātōrēs
Ablative	adūlātōre	adūlātōribus
Vocative	adūlātor	adūlātōrēs

• adūlātorius

• English: adulator
• French: adulateur
• Italian: adulatore
• → Polish: (Middle Polish) adulator (learned)
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Romagnol: aduladôr, adulatôr
• Portuguese: adulador
• Spanish: adulador

adūlātor

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of adūlor

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

• laudātor

Learned borrowing from Latin adūlātor. First attested in 1560.

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /a.duˈlɒ.tɔr/

adulátor m animacy unattested

1. (Middle Polish) adulator

   Synonyms: pochlebca, służalec

• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “adulator”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

Borrowed from French adulateur.

adulator m (plural adulatori, feminine equivalent adulatoare)

1. worshiper