intendant

See also: Intendant

English

Etymology

Originally and usually from French intendant, but translating Spanish or Chinese equivalents in some contexts.

Noun

intendant (plural intendants)

1. (UK) The administrator of an opera house or theater.
2. (dated) One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent.

   an intendant of finance

   • 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman:

     By-and-by, she wandered away to an unnecessary revelation of her master's whereabouts: gone to help in the search for his landlord, the Sieur de Poissy, who lived at the château just above, and who had not returned from his chase the day before; so the intendant imagined he might have met with some accident, and had summoned the neighbours to beat the forest and the hill-side.

3. A governor in various specific contexts, including certain South American countries, and historically in the kingdoms of Spain, Portugal, and France, and in imperial China.

Synonyms

• (governor): governor; see also circuit intendant (Chinese)

Derived terms

• intendancy

 

Adjective

intendant (comparative more intendant, superlative most intendant)

1. (obsolete) Attentive.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃/

Noun

intendant m (plural intendants)

1. intendant, administrator
2. quartermaster

Further reading

• “intendant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

intendant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of intendō

Romanian

Noun

intendant m (plural intendanți)

1. Alternative form of intendent

Declension

Declension of intendant

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) intendant	intendantul	(niște) intendanți	intendanții
genitive/dative	(unui) intendant	intendantului	(unor) intendanți	intendanților
vocative	intendantule		intendanților