Latin

Noun

lātor m ‎(genitive lātōris); third declension

1. Someone who proposes a law, proposer, carrier.
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam, 4.5.10

     […] denique ipsum latorem Semproniae legis iniussu populi poenas rei publicae dependisse

     […] and moreover that the very proposer of the Sempronian law suffered punishment by the command of the people.

Inflection

Third declension.

Derived terms

• lēgislātor

Descendants

• Italian: latore

References

• lator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “lator”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a legislator: qui leges scribit (not legum lator)