adulator

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adūlātor.

Noun

adulator (plural adulators)

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

Derived terms

• adulatress

Translations

one who adulates

• Armenian: շողոքորթ (hy) (šoġokʻortʻ)
• Azerbaijani: yaltaq (az)
• Bashkir: ялағай (yalağay)
• Danish: smigrer c, spytslikker c
• Finnish: mielistelijä (fi), imartelija (fi)
• French: adulateur (fr) m, adulatrice (fr) f
• German: Schmeichler (de) m, Schmeichlerin (de) f
• Greek: κόλακας (el) m (kólakas), γαλίφης (el) m (galífis), μαλαγάνας (el) m (malagánas)

  Ancient: κόλαξ m (kólax), θώψ m (thṓps)

• Hungarian: talpnyaló (hu)
• Italian: adulatore (it) m, adulatrice f
• Portuguese: adulador (pt) m, bajulador (pt) m
• Romagnol: aduladôr m, adulatôr m
• Romanian: adulator (ro) m, adulatoare (ro) f
• Russian: льстец (ru) m (lʹstec), подхали́м (ru) m (podxalím), лизоблю́д (ru) m (lizobljúd), подли́за (ru) m or f (podlíza)
• Spanish: adulador (es) m, aduladora (es) f

Anagrams

• laudator

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

adūlātor m (genitive adūlātōris); third declension

1. a low cringing flatterer; a sycophant

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	adūlātor	adūlātōrēs
genitive	adūlātōris	adūlātōrum
dative	adūlātōrī	adūlātōribus
accusative	adūlātōrem	adūlātōrēs
ablative	adūlātōre	adūlātōribus
vocative	adūlātor	adūlātōrēs

Derived terms

• adūlātorius

Descendants

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

Verb

adūlātor

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

References

• “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.

Anagrams

• laudātor

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin adūlātor. First attested in 1560.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

adulátor m animacy unattested

1. (Middle Polish) adulator

   Synonyms: pochlebca, służalec

Declension

Attested forms of adulátor

	singular	plural
nominative	adulátor	—
genitive	—	—
dative	—	—
accusative	—	—
instrumental	—	—
locative	—	—
vocative	—	—

Related terms

noun

• adulacja

References

• 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]

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French adulateur.

Noun

adulator m (plural adulatori, feminine equivalent adulatoare)

1. worshiper

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	adulator	adulatorul		adulatori	adulatorii
genitive-dative	adulator	adulatorului		adulatori	adulatorilor
vocative	adulatorule			adulatorilor