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Sorcerer

//ˈsoɹ.sɚ.ɚ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A magician or wizard. Sometimes specifically male.

    "Pope Joan, who once occupied the throne of the Vatican, was reputed to be the blackest sorcerer of them all."

  2. 2
    one who practices magic or sorcery wordnet
  3. 3
    A person whose skills or abilities appear almost magical. figuratively

    "The goalscorer was Eberechi Eze, Palace’s sorcerer-in-chief, and it came in the 16th minute from an assist by Daniel Muñoz, who was irrepressible up and down the right."

Etymology

From Middle English sorcerere, from stem sorcer- (as in sorceresse and sorcery) + -ere, from Old French sorcer, sorcier, from Early Medieval Latin sortiārius, derived from Latin sortem (“fate, fortune”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”).

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