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provisor

English edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Latin prōvīsor, agent noun of prōvideō (“provide”).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /pɹəˈvaɪzə(ɹ)/

Noun edit

provisor (plural provisors)

  1. A deputy of a Roman Catholic bishop.
  2. The holder of a papal provision.
  3. One who provides; a purveyor.

Danish edit

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Noun edit

provisor c (singular definite provisoren, plural indefinite provisorer)

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Declension edit

Declension of provisor
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative provisor provisoren provisorer provisorerne
genitive provisors provisorens provisorers provisorernes

Further reading edit

Latin edit

Noun edit

prōvīsor m (genitive prōvīsōris); third declension

  1. foreseer
  2. lookout
  3. provider
  4. provisor

Declension edit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative prōvīsor prōvīsōrēs
Genitive prōvīsōris prōvīsōrum
Dative prōvīsōrī prōvīsōribus
Accusative prōvīsōrem prōvīsōrēs
Ablative prōvīsōre prōvīsōribus
Vocative prōvīsor prōvīsōrēs

References edit

  • “provisor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “provisor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • provisor 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)
  • provisor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish edit

Noun edit

provisor m (plural provisores)

  1. provisor

Further reading edit

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