English

Noun

assentator ‎(plural assentators)

1. An obsequious flatterer.

Latin

Noun

assentātor m ‎(genitive assentātōris); third declension

1. yes man
2. flatterer, toady

Inflection

Third declension.

Verb

assentātor

1. second-person singular future active imperative of assentor
2. third-person singular future active imperative of assentor

References

• assentator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ASSENTATOR in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “assentator”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to turn a deaf ear to, to open one's ears to..: aures claudere, patefacere (e.g. veritati, assentatoribus)