commentator

See also: Commentator

English

Alternative forms

• commentatour (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English commentator, from Latin commentātor.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑmənˌteɪtəɹ/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

Noun

commentator (plural commentators)

1. A person who comments; especially someone who is paid to give his/her opinions in the media about current affairs, sports, etc.
2. (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.
   • 2009, Randall Lesaffer, European Legal History: A Cultural and Political Perspective, →ISBN, page 257:

     It would be well into the fourteenth century before the commentators came into their own.

Derived terms

• color commentator
• commentate

Related terms

• commentary

Translations

person who comments

• Arabic: مُعَلِّق‎ m (muʕalliq)
• Armenian: մեկնաբան (hy) (meknaban)
• Belarusian: камента́тар m (kamjentátar), камента́тарка f (kamjentátarka), камэнта́тар m (kamentátar), камэнта́тарка f (kamentátarka)
• Bulgarian: комента́тор m (komentátor)
• Catalan: comentarista m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 評論員／评论员 (zh) (pínglùnyuán)

• Czech: komentátor (cs) m, komentátorka f
• Dutch: commentator (nl) m
• Esperanto: komentisto
• Faroese: viðmerkjari m
• Finnish: selostaja (fi), kommentaattori (fi)
• French: commentateur (fr) m
• German: Kommentator (de) m, Kommentatorin (de) f
• Greek: σχολιαστής (el) m (scholiastís)
• Japanese: コメンテーター (ja) (komentētā), 評論家 (ひょうろんか, hyōronka)
• Korean: 해설자(解說者) (haeseolja), 평론가(評論家) (ko) (pyeongnon'ga)
• Macedonian: комента́тор m (komentátor), комента́торка f (komentátorka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kommentator m

  Nynorsk: kommentator m

• Polish: komentator (pl) m, komentatorka (pl) f
• Portuguese: comentarista (pt) m or f
• Russian: коммента́тор (ru) m (kommentátor)
• Slovak: komentátor m, komentátorka f
• Spanish: comentador m, comentadora f, comentarista m or f
• Telugu: వ్యాఖ్యాత (te) (vyākhyāta)
• Thai: นักวิจารณ์ (nák-wí-jaan)
• Ukrainian: комента́тор m (komentátor), комента́торка f (komentátorka)

Latin

Etymology 1

From 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

commentātor m (genitive commentātōris); third declension

1. (Late Latin) inventor, author
2. (Late Latin) interpreter
3. (Medieval Latin) jailer

Declension

Third-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

• commentātrīx

Etymology 2

Verb

commentātor

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of commentor

References

• “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., 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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016