viator
Americannoun
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viatores
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of viator
First recorded in 1495–1505; from Latin viātor, equivalent to viā(re) “to travel” (derivative of via “way”) + -tor -tor
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Its name, viator, is Latin for 'traveller' or 'wayfarer'.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2024
Protemnodon viator was well-adapted to its arid central Australian habitat, living in similar areas to the red kangaroos of today.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2024
However, one new species named as part of the latest study -- named Protemnodon viator -- was much bigger, weighing up to 170 kg.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2024
In many cases, if the viator lives longer than expected, investors can end up having to pay premiums to maintain the policy.
From Time Magazine Archive
This, as a sort of siste viator appeal to future sextons, is worthy of the grave-digger or the parish-clerk, who was probably its author.
From Biographical Essays by Thomas De Quincey
One of the tribunician viatores, a freedman of Gracchus, was commanded to fetch him down.
From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge
Curius as well as other old men used to receive their summonses to attend the Senate in their farm-houses, from which circumstance the summoners were called viatores or "travellers."
From Treatises on Friendship and Old Age by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh
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