# viator
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin viātor (“traveler”).

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /vaɪˈeɪt.əɹ/, /vaɪˈeɪ.tɔɹ/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /vʌɪˈeɪtə/
* Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

### Noun

viator (plural viators or viatores)
* (rare) A wayfarer, traveler.
** 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28:After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.
** (Can we date this quote?), University of California, Los Angeles. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Viator, Univ of California Press (→ISBN), page 25:
    [The] notion of man as viator in search of perfection in history thus did not function as a legitimating idea for progress.
** 2019, Reinhard Hütter, Bound for Beatitude A Thomistic Study in Eschatology and Ethics, Catholic University of America Press, →ISBN, page 39:... theological virtues and of the whole supernatural life in God on account of sanctifying grace. Aquinas understands the viator in the state of grace in […]
* (rare, historical) An apparitor, a summoner: a minor Roman official.
** 1882, Titus Livius, Historiarum Romanarum quæ supersunt liber secundus, ed. by H. Belcher, page 198:The apparitor tribuni was a viator, whose most important function was that of arrest.
* A person who is subject to a viatical insurance policy or a viatical settlement.
** 2016, Howard M. Friedman, Anderson's Ohio Annotated Securities Law Handbook, 2016 Edition, LexisNexis, →ISBN:[…] the viators are residents of different states, the viatical settlement […]
** 2020, Deborah Bouchoux, Christine Sgarlata Chung, Business Organizations Law in Focus, Aspen Publishers, →ISBN, page 711:Viatical settlement providers purchase the policies from individual viators. Once purchased, these viatical settlement providers typically sell […]

### References

* Websters Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary, 1989.

## Latin
### Etymology

From viō (“to travel”) +‎ -tor, from via (“road, path”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /u̯iˈaː.tor/, [u̯iˈäːt̪ɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /viˈa.tor/, [viˈäːt̪or]

### Noun

viātor m (genitive viātōris, feminine viātrīx); third declension
* traveller, wayfarer
    Coordinate term: viātrīx
* messenger

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | viātor | viātōrēs |
| Genitive | viātōris | viātōrum |
| Dative | viātōrī | viātōribus |
| Accusative | viātōrem | viātōrēs |
| Ablative | viātōre | viātōribus |
| Vocative | viātor | viātōrēs |

#### Related terms

* via

### References

* “viator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “viator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* viator 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)
* “viator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “viator”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin