fornicator

English

Alternative forms

• fornicatour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English fornicatour, from Medieval Latin fornicātor.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fɔː(ɹ).nɪ.keɪ.tə(ɹ)/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

fornicator (plural fornicators)

1. An unmarried person who engages in sexual intercourse, especially when considered to be of an illicit or illegal nature.

   Coordinate term: adulterer

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 6:9–10, column 1:

     Know yee not that the vnrighteous ſhall not inherite the kingdome of God? Be not deceiued: neither fornicatours, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abuſers of themſelues with mankinde, Nor theeues, nor couetous, nor drunkards, nor reuilers, nor extortioners, ſhall inherit the kingdom of God.

   • 1917, Maulana Muhammad Ali (translator), Qu’ran 24:2

     (As for) the fornicatress and the fornicator, flog each of them, (giving) a hundred stripes, and let not pity for them detain you in the matter of obedience to Allah, if you believe in Allah and the last day, and let a party of believers witness their chastisement.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:libertine

Related terms

• fornicatress, fornicatresses f (very rare)
• fornicatrix, fornicatrices f (very rare)

Translations

unmarried person who engages in sexual intercourse

• Arabic: زَانٍ (zānin)
• Dutch: ontuchtige (nl) c
• French: fornicateur (fr) m, forniqueur (fr) m, fornicatrice (fr) f
• German: Hurenbock (de) m, Hurer (de) m, Hure (de) f, Unzuchtsünder m, Unzuchtsünderin f, Unzüchtiger m, Unzüchtige f
• Irish: táthach m
• Spanish: fornicador m, fornicario m
• Swedish: horbock (sv) c
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: زانی m (zani), زانیه f (zaniye)

Latin

Etymology

From fornicor (“to fornicate”) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /for.niˈkaː.tor/, [fɔrnɪˈkäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /for.niˈka.tor/, [forniˈkäːt̪or]

Noun

fornicātor m (genitive fornicātōris, feminine fornicātrīx); third declension

1. fornicator (male)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fornicātor	fornicātōrēs
Genitive	fornicātōris	fornicātōrum
Dative	fornicātōrī	fornicātōribus
Accusative	fornicātōrem	fornicātōrēs
Ablative	fornicātōre	fornicātōribus
Vocative	fornicātor	fornicātōrēs

Synonyms

• fornicārius

Related terms

• fornicātrīx

Descendants

• French: fornicateur
• Italian: fornicatore
• Spanish: fornicador

References

• “fornicator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fornicator 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)
• fornicator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.