# orator
## English
### Alternative forms

* oratour (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English oratour, from Anglo-Norman oratour, from Latin ōrātor.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈɒ.ɹə.tə(ɹ)/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) enPR: ôr'ə-tər
* (New York City) IPA: /ˈɑɹ.ə.tɚ/

### Noun

orator (plural orators)
* Someone who orates or delivers an oration.
* A skilled and eloquent public speaker.
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* (obsolete) Someone sent to speak for someone else; an envoy, a messenger.
* (obsolete) A petitioner, a supplicant.

#### Synonyms

* speaker

#### Derived terms

* oratory
* public orator
* stump orator

#### Translations

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### Further reading

* orator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch orateur, orator, from Latin orator.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɔrat̪ɔr]
* Hyphenation: ora‧tor

### Noun

orator (uncountable)
* orator.

#### Related terms

* orasi
* oratorium

### Further reading

* “orator” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Latin
### Etymology

From ōrō +‎ -tor.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /oːˈraː.tor/, [oːˈräːt̪ɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /oˈra.tor/, [oˈräːt̪or]

### Noun

ōrātor m (genitive ōrātōris, feminine ōrātrīx); third declension
* An orator, speaker.
* A spokesman, spokesperson.
* An ambassador (one entrusted with an oral message))

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Catalan: orador
* French: orateur
* Galician: orador
* Italian: oratore
* Piedmontese: orator
* Polish: orator
* Portuguese: orador
* Romanian: orator
* Russian: ора́тор (orátor)
* Spanish: orador

### References

* “orator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “orator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "orator", 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)
* orator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to sketch the ideal of an orator: imaginem perfecti oratoris adumbrare to be considered the foremost orator: primum or principem inter oratores locum obtinere to say only a few words: pauca dicere (pauca verba dicere only of the orator)
* “orator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* orator in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
* “orator”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ōrātor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔˈra.tɔr/
* Rhymes: -atɔr
* Syllabification: o‧ra‧tor

### Noun

orator m pers (female equivalent oratorka, related adjective oratorski)
* (literary) orator, oratist, wordsmith (skilled and eloquent public speaker)
    Synonyms: krasomówca, retor
    Hypernym: mówca

#### Derived terms

* oratorstwo

#### Related terms

* oratoryjny
* oratorsko
* oratoria
* oratorianin
* oratorium

### Further reading

* orator in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* orator in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin orator or French orateur.

### Noun

orator m (plural oratori, feminine equivalent oratoare)
* orator, speaker

#### Related terms

* urător

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ǒraːtor/
* Hyphenation: o‧ra‧tor

### Noun

òrātor m (Cyrillic spelling о̀ра̄тор)
* orator

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Noun

orator c
* an orator

#### Declension
### References

* orator in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* orator in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* orator in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)