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oratorlike

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or⋅a⋅tor

  [awr-uh-ter, or-]
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–noun
1. a person who delivers an oration; a public speaker, esp. one of great eloquence: Demosthenes was one of the great orators of ancient Greece.
2. Law. a plaintiff in a case in a court of equity.
Origin:
1325–75; < L ōrātor speaker, suppliant, equiv. to ōrā(re) (see oration ) + -tor -tor; r. ME oratour < AF < L, as above

Related forms:
or⋅a⋅tor⋅like, adjective
or⋅a⋅tor⋅ship, noun
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Word Origin & History

orator 
c.1374, "one who pleads or argues for a cause," from Anglo-Fr. oratour, from O.Fr. orateur (14c.), from L. oratorem (nom. orator) "speaker," from orare "speak before a court or assembly, plead," from PIE base *or- "to pronounce a ritual formula" (cf. Skt. aryanti "they praise," Homeric Gk. are, Attic ara "prayer," Hittite ariya- "to ask the oracle," aruwai- "to revere, worship"). Meaning "public speaker" is attested from c.1430.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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