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单词 plantator
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plantatorn.

Brit. /plɑːnˈteɪtə/, /planˈteɪtə/, U.S. /ˈplænˌteɪdər/
Forms: 1600s plantatore, 1600s plantatoure, 1600s–1700s 1900s– plantator.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin plantator.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin plantator person who plants (4th or 5th cent. in Jerome), founder, establisher (4th or 5th cent. in Augustine), colonist (1624 in a British source) < classical Latin plantāt- , past participial stem of plantāre plant v. + -or -or suffix. Compare Anglo-Norman plauntour (end of the 13th cent. or earlier), Old French plantaour , plantator , plantierres (all end of the 13th cent.; Middle French, French planteur : see -er suffix2, -or suffix), Old Occitan plantador , Spanish plantador (beginning of the 13th cent. or earlier), Portuguese plantador (15th cent. as †prantador ), Italian piantatore (first half of the 14th cent. as †plantatore ), all earliest in more general sense ‘person who plants seeds, trees, etc.’. Compare earlier planter n.
Now historical and rare.
1. A person who transplants something immaterial, as a custom. Obsolete.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [noun] > cause of transformation
forschuppild?c1225
converter1533
transformer1601
plantator1616
transformator1617
transmogrifier1676
new broom1799
transformist1799
denaturalizer1832
catalyser1904
wind (also winds) of change1905
catalyst1943
touchpaper1968
1616 T. Granger Syntagma Grammaticum sig. B6v That that seed of learning, &c. that he sowes..having once taken rooting may be served of the childes nature..[the master must preserve it] from outward contagion of vaine, vitious, & idle persons... For such persons are plantatores, and rigatores also, whose poisons..do surely take effect.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 438 Can you draw from them [i.e. the French]..a greater draught, then they draw from the Italian, for first they be Imitators; next, Mutators; thirdly, Temptators; and lastly, your Plantators, in all the varieties of vanity.
2. A settler, a colonist. Cf. planter n. 2a. Now historical and rare.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > colonist or settler > [noun]
peopler1566
planter1587
plantator1632
colonist1658
populator1664
storer1690
settler1696
white settler1754
plantationite1756
colonizer1766
colonizationist1823
colon1860
homesteader1870
plantationer1888
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 411 A great discouragment for our collonizd plantators there.
1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 123 This year the protestants and English plantators in Ireland, began to grow into some discontent.
a1677 R. Bellings in J. T. Gilbert Hist. Irish Confederation (1882) I. 17 They further resented the incapacity layd upon them of houlding by lease or purchasing from the Plantatoure any part of those lands.
1757 W. Harris Fiction Unmasked 59 By a Survey made of it in the Year 1620 it appears, that there were but 33 Plantators or Undertakers, to whom Lands were set out, and that they had amongst them only 17904 Acres.
1940 Social Forces 19 245/2 In the early days of American colonization, however, the term, along with ‘plantationer’, ‘plantationite’, and ‘plantator’, was more likely to designate one who was planted or settled.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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