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名詞

speculator (plural speculators)

1. One who speculates; an observer; a contemplator.
   • c. 1683 (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in [Thomas Tenison], editor, Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: […] Charles Mearn, […], published 1683, →OCLC:

     a bold and paradoxical speculator

2. One who forms theories; a theorist.
   • 1666, Joseph Glanvill, Philosophical Considerations concerning Witches and Witchcraft:

     […] in things of Fact, the People are as much to be believed, as the most subtle Philosophers and Speculators, since here sense is the Judge.

   • 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second:

     For, in the earlier part of the seventeenth century, a speculator who had dared to affirm that the human soul is by its nature mortal, and does, in the great majority of cases, actually die with the body, would have been burned alive in Smithfield.

3. (business, finance) One who speculates; as in investing, one who is willing to take volatile risks upon invested principal for the potential of substantial returns.
4. (rugby) Synonym of field goal

関連する語

• speculate
• speculation
• speculative
• speculatrix

参考

• entrepreneur
• gambler
• punter

アナグラム

• copulaters, outparcels, outplacers, peculators

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /spe.kuˈlaː.tor/, [s̠pɛkʊˈɫ̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /spe.kuˈla.tor/, [spekuˈläːt̪or]

名詞

speculātor m (genitive speculātōris, feminine speculātrīx); third declension

1. spy, scout
   1. a particular scout of the Imperial legion’s commander or of a province’s governor also competent to carry out executions
2. explorer, investigator

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生した語

動詞

speculātor

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of speculor

参照

• “speculator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “speculator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• speculator 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)
• speculator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “speculator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers