dispensator
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin dispēnsātor.
Noun edit
dispensator (plural dispensators)
- A distributor; a person who dispenses.
- Coordinate term: dispensatrix
- c. 1598, Francis Bacon, An Account of […] Compositions for Alienations:
- dispensators of this her royal favour towards her people
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dispensator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
dispēnsātor m (genitive dispēnsātōris, feminine dispēnsātrīx); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | dispēnsātor | dispēnsātōrēs |
Genitive | dispēnsātōris | dispēnsātōrum |
Dative | dispēnsātōrī | dispēnsātōribus |
Accusative | dispēnsātōrem | dispēnsātōrēs |
Ablative | dispēnsātōre | dispēnsātōribus |
Vocative | dispēnsātor | dispēnsātōrēs |
Descendants edit
- Catalan: dispensador
- French: dispensateur
- Galician: dispensador
- Italian: dispensatore
- Portuguese: dispensador
- Romanian: dispensator
- Spanish: dispensador
References edit
- “dispensator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dispensator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dispensator 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)
- dispensator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “dispensator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “dispensator”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French dispensateur or Latin dispensator. By surface analysis, dispensa + -tor.
Adjective edit
dispensator m or n (feminine singular dispensatoare, masculine plural dispensatori, feminine and neuter plural dispensatoare)
Declension edit
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | dispensator | dispensatoare | dispensatori | dispensatoare | ||
definite | dispensatorul | dispensatoarea | dispensatorii | dispensatoarele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | dispensator | dispensatoare | dispensatori | dispensatoare | ||
definite | dispensatorului | dispensatoarei | dispensatorilor | dispensatoarelor |