intendant
See also: Intendant
English edit
Etymology edit
Originally and usually from French intendant, but translating Spanish or Chinese equivalents in some contexts.
Noun edit
intendant (plural intendants)
- (UK) The administrator of an opera house or theater.
- (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.
- 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 edit
- (governor): governor; see also circuit intendant (Chinese)
Derived terms edit
Adjective edit
intendant (comparative more intendant, superlative most intendant)
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
intendant m (plural intendants)
Further reading edit
- “intendant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
Verb edit
intendant
Romanian edit
Noun edit
intendant m (plural intendanți)
- Alternative form of intendent
Declension edit
Declension of intendant
singular | plural | |||
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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 |