zelator

Latin

zelator (plural zelators)

1. A zealot; the male counterpart of a zelatrix.

• zealot, zelatrix

From zēlō (“love ardently”) +‎ -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /zeːˈlaː.tor/, [d̪͡z̪eːˈɫ̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /d͡zeˈla.tor/, [d̪͡z̪eˈläːt̪or]

zēlātor m (genitive zēlātōris, feminine zēlātrīx); third declension

1. zealous person; zealot

Third-declension noun.

• Catalan: zelador
• French: zélateur
• Italian: zelatore
• Portuguese: zelador

• “zelator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• zelator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• zelator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• zelator in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Borrowed from French zélateur.

zelator m (plural zelatori)

1. zealot