A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Scrutator,-oris (s.m.III), abl.sg. scrutatore: researcher, investigator, inquirer; ”a searcher, scrutinizer, examiner, investigator (Lewis & Short); fem. scrutatrix,-icis (s.f.III); “one who searches (a place, also a person) for something hidden; one who scrutinizes or watches closely (a person); one who inquires minutely into (a subject); one who searches out (something hidden)” (Glare) [> L. scrutor,-atum “to probe or examine for something hidden, search; to scan, scrutinize; to make research into (a subject, investigate, inquire into; to probe for (something hidden), search out” (Glare); cf. indagator,-oris (s.m.III).

NOTE: often joined with indefessus,-a,-um (adj.A), q.v.: unwearied, indefatigable, tireless.

-[Seligeria; moss] nomen in memoriam pastoris ecclesiae ‘Seliger’ Silesiaci, scrutatoris muscorum Silesiae olim acerrimi et indefessi impositum (C. Muell.), the name established in remembrance of ‘Seliger,’ Pastor of the church, a Silesian, once the most zealous and tireless student of the mosses of Silesia.

- species novas auctores in libris saepe pretiosissimis, rarissimis vel minus cognitis descripserunt, quos scrutator solitarius vix accipit (C.Muell.), authors have described new species in books that are often expensive, very rare or less known [i.e. learned or aware of], which the solitary investigator hardly learns of.

- [Andreaea; moss] nomen ab Ehrharto hujusce generis conditore illi in memoriam Andreae inclyti pharmacopoli Hannoverani naturaeque [perito (sic)] scrutatori impositum (C. Muell.), the name applied by Ehrhart author of that genus, in memory of Andrea, the celebrated apothecary of Hannover and [skillful] investigator of nature.

- in summis rupibus alpis Grimsel, ubi ad nives aeternas legit amicus Heinemann, pharmacopola ac muscorum scrutator indefessus (C. Muell.), on the highest rocks of the alpine-mountain ‘Grimsel,’ where my friend Heinemann, collected it on the everlasting snows, appothecary and student of mosses.

- Ex hisce notis excellentissimis et calyptra infra describenda scrutatores permulti, hanc tribum distinctissimam e muscorum classi educendam esse, putarunt (C. Muell.); very many researchers are of the opinion from these most excellent characters, and the calyptra to be described below, that this most distinct tribe must be raised out of the Class of mosses.