LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
noun · masculinethird declension

flātor

flātor m (genitive flātōris)
Classical[ˈfɫaː.tɔr]Ecclesiastical[ˈflaː.tor]

Meaning

  1. flautist
    Flator tibicen.c. 2nd century, Sextus Pompeius Festus, De verborum significatione 39
  2. caster (of metal), coiner
    Constituti sunt eodem tempore et quattuorviri qui curam viarum agerent, et triumviri monetales aeris argenti auri flatores […]At the same time there were also established the quattuorviri who are to take care of the roads, and the triumviri monetales, those who cast copper, silver, and gold […]c. 2nd century CE, Sextus Pomponius, quoted in Digest 1.2.2.30
  3. Medieval Latinbellows-worker
    In mercede anteriorum flatorum […]In recompense of the principal bellows-workers […]1333, P.R.O. Ministers’ Accounts; republished as “Some Fourteenth-Century Accounts of Ironworks at Tudeley, Kent”, in Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity, volume 63, 1913, page 157:
  4. New Latinblower, that which blows
    […] denique ventorum flatorum, caeterorumque aquae aërisque motuum ordinariorum phaenomena non difficulter deducuntur.[…] and lastly the phenomena of those things that blow the winds, and otherwise of the regular movements of water and air, are not difficult to deduce.1671, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Hypothesis Physica nova […] ; republished as C. I. Gerhardt, editor, Leibnizes mathematische Schriften, volume 2, 1860, page 24:

Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativeflātorflātōrēs
genitiveflātōrisflātōrum
dativeflātōrīflātōribus
accusativeflātōremflātōrēs
ablativeflātōreflātōribus
vocativeflātorflātōrēs

flātor, ōris, m. id.,
I. a blower of a windinstrument: flator tibicen, Paul. ex Fest. p. 89 Müll.; cf.: flat, flator φυσᾷ, αὐλητής, Gloss. Lab.: flatores, tibicines a flando, Placid. p. 463; a caster of metals: triumviri monetales, aeris, argenti, auri flatores, a melter, coiner, Dig. 1, 2, 2, § 30.

Origins

From flō (“blow”) + -tor (agentive noun suffix), i.e. “blower”.

Descendants
  • Italianfiatorefrom Vulgar Latin *flātor
  • Englishflavourfrom Vulgar Latin *flātor
  • Englishflavorfrom Vulgar Latin *flātor

Quick answers

What does flātor mean in Latin?
flātor, a noun, means “flautist; caster (of metal), coiner; bellows-worker”.
What is the genitive of flātor?
The genitive singular is flātōris. flātor is masculine, third declension.
How do you pronounce flātor?
In classical Latin, [ˈfɫaː.tɔr]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [ˈflaː.tor].