rhētor (noun M) = ῥήτωρ,:
* A teacher of oratory or rhetoric, a rhetorician: eos, qui rhetores nominarentur et qui dicendi praecepta traderent, nihil plane tenere,Cic. de Or. 1, 18, 84; cf. Quint. 2, 2, 1: in rhetorum scholis, id. 10, 5, 14; 12, 2, 23: rhetorum artes,Cic. Fin. 3, 1: rhetorum epilogus,id. Tusc. 1, 47, 112; 2, 3, 9: (pueri) priusquam tradantur rhetori,Quint. 1, 10, 1; Mart. 2, 64, 1; Tac. Dial. 30 and 35; Macr. S. 5, 2, 1.— *
* After the Greek manner, an orator; but with contempt, a rhetorician, speechifier, etc.: stultitia rhetoris Attica,Nep. Epam. 6, 3; cf. with § 1.