excubitor

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Latin ex-

Proto-Italic *kubāō

Latin cubō

Latin excubo

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Latin excubitor

From excubo + -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛkˈskʊ.bɪ.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ekˈskuː.bi.tor]

Noun

excubitor m (genitive excubitōris); third declension

1. guard, sentinel, watchman
2. An imperial guard of early Byzantine emperors.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	excubitor	excubitōrēs
genitive	excubitōris	excubitōrum
dative	excubitōrī	excubitōribus
accusative	excubitōrem	excubitōrēs
ablative	excubitōre	excubitōribus
vocative	excubitor	excubitōrēs

References

• “excubitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “excubitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "excubitor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “excubitor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.