noun · masculinethird declension
nūgātor
nūgātor m (genitive nūgātōris)
Classical[nuːˈɡaː.tɔr]Ecclesiastical[nuˈɡaː.tor]
Meaning
- jester, joker, trifler, buffoon, fool, foolish person, humbug
[A once-famous elderly athlete laments the ‘death’ of his arm muscles, to which Cato replies:] Nōn vērō tam istī quam tū ipse nūgātor!
Indeed, it is not those [arms] so much as you yourself, fool!106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior De Senectute 27
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | nūgātor | nūgātōrēs |
| genitive | nūgātōris | nūgātōrum |
| dative | nūgātōrī | nūgātōribus |
| accusative | nūgātōrem | nūgātōrēs |
| ablative | nūgātōre | nūgātōribus |
| vocative | nūgātor | nūgātōrēs |
nūgātor, ōris, m. nugor,
I. a jester, joker, babbler, trifler, silly person; hence, too, a braggart, a swaggerer: illic nugator nili, non nauci'st homo, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. s. v. naucus, p. 166 Müll. (Com. v. 10 Vahl.); Lucil. ap. Non. 35, 24; Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 91; 5, 2, 14:
nimius, id. Capt. 2, 2, 25: vae tibi nugator! id. Mil. 4, 2, 86: non vero tam isti (lacerti), quam tu ipse nugator, Cic. Sen. 9, 27: neque in istum nugatorem, tamquam in aliquem testem, invehar, id. Fl. 16, 38; Liv. 38, 56: homo nihili et nugator, Gell. 15, 2, 2: iste nugator libellus, Aus. Idyll. 11 praef.: cessas nugator? Pers. 5, 127.—II. Perh., a debauchee, Prud. Cath. 2, 29.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
nūgātor ōris, m
nugor, a jester, joker, babbler, trifler, braggart, swaggerer : tu ipse, nugator: alqm nugatorem appellare, L.
Origins
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -or Latin nūgor Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin nūgātor From nūgor (“to jest”) + -tor.
In English words that came into English from nūgātor
- nugatorynugatorius