medicator

medicator (plural medicators)

1. Any medical appliance.

• self-medicator

• decimator, macrotide, mediocrat, mercadito

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /me.diˈkaː.tor/, [mɛd̪ɪˈkäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me.diˈka.tor/, [med̪iˈkäːt̪or]

From medicō (“to heal, cure”) +‎ -tor (“-er”, agent noun suffix).

medicātor m (genitive medicātōris, feminine medicātrīx); third declension

1. (Late Latin) physician

Third-declension noun.

• Italian: medicatore

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

medicātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of medicō

• “medicator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• medicator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.