Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

viator

/vaɪˈeɪt.əɹ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.93 in modern English

Syllables: vi-a-tor
IPA: /vaɪˈeɪt.əɹ/

9

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A wayfarer, traveler.

noun

An apparitor, a summoner: a minor Roman official.

noun

A person who is subject to a viatical insurance policy or a viatical settlement.

name

A municipality in Andalusia, Spain.

Countable; Uncountable

name

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."
"[The] notion of man as viator in search of perfection in history thus did not function as a legitimating idea for progress."
"... 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 […]"
"The apparitor tribuni was a viator, whose most important function was that of arrest."
"[…] the viators are residents of different states, the viatical settlement […]"
"Viatical settlement providers purchase the policies from individual viators. Once purchased, these viatical settlement providers typically sell […]"

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin viātor (“traveler”).

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /vaɪˈeɪt.əɹ/
British English: /vʌɪˈeɪtə/

Usage

Inflected Forms

viators (plural) viatores (plural)

Rhymes With

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Questions

How do you pronounce viator?: The recorded pronunciation is /vaɪˈeɪt.əɹ/.
What does viator mean?: A wayfarer, traveler.
Where does viator come from?: Borrowed from Latin viātor (“traveler”).

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