commentator
See also: Commentator
English
editAlternative forms
edit- commentatour (archaic)
Etymology
editFrom Middle English commentator, from Latin commentātor.
Pronunciation
edit- (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɑmənˌteɪtəɹ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editcommentator (plural commentators)
- (media) A person who comments; especially someone who is paid to give his/her opinions in the media about current affairs, sports, etc.
- (historical, law) A medieval legal scholar who authored prose commentaries on civil law; (specifically) a member of a comparatively innovative 14th-century school of jurisprudence, typically distinguished from the earlier glossators.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editperson who comments
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Latin
editEtymology 1
editFrom commentor + -tor. In the medieval sense of “jailer”, from the jailer’s duty of writing commentārii (“memoranda”) with records of those held in custody.
Noun
editcommentātor m (genitive commentātōris); third declension
Declension
editThird-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | commentātor | commentātōrēs |
Genitive | commentātōris | commentātōrum |
Dative | commentātōrī | commentātōribus |
Accusative | commentātōrem | commentātōrēs |
Ablative | commentātōre | commentātōribus |
Vocative | commentātor | commentātōrēs |
Coordinate terms
editEtymology 2
editVerb
editcommentātor
References
edit- “commentator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- commentator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- commentator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Souter, Alexander (1949) “commentator”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.[1], 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 62
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “commentator”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 217
- commentator in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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