abbreviator
English edit
Etymology edit
From Ecclesiastical Latin abbreviātor. Compare French abbréviateur.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈbɹiː.viˌeɪ.tɚ/, /-ɛɪ.tɚ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈbɹi.viˌeɪ.tɚ/
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Noun edit
abbreviator (plural abbreviators)
- A person who abbreviates or shortens. [from early 16th c.][1]
- (Roman Catholicism, historical) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty was to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form. [from mid-16th c.][1]
Translations edit
one who abbreviates
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papal officer
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References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abbreviator”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ab.bre.u̯iˈaː.tor/, [äbːreu̯iˈäːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ab.bre.viˈa.tor/, [äbːreviˈäːt̪or]
Noun edit
abbreviātor m (genitive abbreviātōris); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | abbreviātor | abbreviātōrēs |
Genitive | abbreviātōris | abbreviātōrum |
Dative | abbreviātōrī | abbreviātōribus |
Accusative | abbreviātōrem | abbreviātōrēs |
Ablative | abbreviātōre | abbreviātōribus |
Vocative | abbreviātor | abbreviātōrēs |
Descendants edit
- → Norwegian Bokmål: abbreviator
Verb edit
abbreviātor
References edit
- abbreviator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- abbreviator 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)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin abbreviātor.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
abbreviator m (definite singular abbreviatoren, indefinite plural abbreviatorer, definite plural abbreviatorene)
- (history, Roman Catholicism) abbreviator (one of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.)
See also edit
- apostolisk protonotar (“protonotary apostolic”)
- kanselli (“chancery”)