English → Latin
“entertainer” in Latin
epulumfeast, banquet, festive entertainment; dishes, meats.; food.convīvorto eat or consume with others at a feast, banquet; to feast, banquet or carouse; to host/give a feast, banquet, or dinneōrōto orate, deliver a speech publicly; to plead, beg, pray, entreat
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
entertainer
Giver of a banquet, domiitus cenae or epuli: convivator (less common): ☞ cenae praebitor is not Latin: conditor instructorque convivii occurs in Auct., Orat. p. red. in Senat., 6, 15.
For the other meanings, by circumlocution with verbs.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for entertainer?
- The usual Latin words for “entertainer” are epulum, convīvor, ōrō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.