English

Noun

sectator ‎(plural sectators)

1. (now rare) A follower, a disciple; someone who follows a particular school; partisan.
   • 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, II:

     But that the Earth, Water, Air, are of a nature equally constituted immoveable about the centre, is it not the opinion of your self, Aristotle, Ptolomy, and all their sectators?

References

• J[ohn] A. Simpson and E[dward] S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sekˈtaː.tor/, [sɛkˈtaː.tɔr]

Noun

sectātor m ‎(genitive sectātōris); third declension

1. follower, attendant, adherent

Inflection

Third declension.

Verb

sectātor

1. second-person singular future active imperative of sector
2. third-person singular future active imperative of sector

References

• sectator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sectator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• SECTATOR in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)