"censor" meaning in Latin

See censor in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [ˈkẽː.sɔr] [Classical-Latin], [ˈt͡ʃɛn.sor] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From cēnseō (“I assess, value, judge, tax, etc.”) + -tor (agentive suffix). Etymology templates: {{af|la|cēnseō|-tor|pos2=agentive suffix|t1=I assess, value, judge, tax, etc.}} cēnseō (“I assess, value, judge, tax, etc.”) + -tor (agentive suffix) Head templates: {{la-noun|cēnsor<3>}} cēnsor m (genitive cēnsōris); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|cēnsor<3>}} Forms: cēnsor [canonical, masculine], cēnsōris [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], cēnsor [nominative, singular], cēnsōrēs [nominative, plural], cēnsōris [genitive, singular], cēnsōrum [genitive, plural], cēnsōrī [dative, singular], cēnsōribus [dative, plural], cēnsōrem [accusative, singular], cēnsōrēs [accusative, plural], cēnsōre [ablative, singular], cēnsōribus [ablative, plural], cēnsor [singular, vocative], cēnsōrēs [plural, vocative], cēsor [alternative]
  1. censor Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-censor-la-noun-t0VcPWMm Categories (other): Public administration Disambiguation of Public administration: 21 41 38
  2. provincial magistrate with similar duties. Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-censor-la-noun-C92dudev Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin terms suffixed with -tor, Male people, Occupations, Public administration Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 5 76 20 Disambiguation of Latin terms suffixed with -tor: 11 54 35 Disambiguation of Male people: 0 100 0 Disambiguation of Occupations: 10 64 26 Disambiguation of Public administration: 21 41 38
  3. a critic, especially a severe one of morals and society Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-censor-la-noun-4HZrpb5O Categories (other): Latin masculine nouns in the third declension, Public administration Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the third declension: 26 33 41 Disambiguation of Public administration: 21 41 38
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: cēnsitor, censōrīnus, Censōrīnus, cēnsōrius, cēnsūra
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      "text": "→ Romanian: cenzor"
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          "magistrate",
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      "ipa": "[ˈkẽː.sɔr]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
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      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃɛn.sor]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
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}
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      "text": "→ French: censeur"
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            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ German: Zensor",
          "name": "desc"
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    },
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            "bor": "1"
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          "name": "desc"
        }
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      ],
      "text": "→ Portuguese: censor"
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      "form": "cēnsōre",
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  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "word": "censōrīnus"
    },
    {
      "word": "Censōrīnus"
    },
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      "word": "cēnsōrius"
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  "senses": [
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        "censor"
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        [
          "censor",
          "censor#English"
        ]
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        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "provincial magistrate with similar duties."
      ],
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          "provincial",
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          "magistrate",
          "magistrate"
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      ],
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        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a critic, especially a severe one of morals and society"
      ],
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        [
          "critic",
          "critic"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkẽː.sɔr]",
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        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃɛn.sor]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "la:censor"
  ],
  "word": "censor"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Latin dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-02 using wiktextract (a681f8a and 3c020d2). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.