legislator
English
editAlternative forms
edit- legislatour (obsolete, rare)
Etymology
editFrom Latin lēgislātor.
Noun
editlegislator (plural legislators)
- Someone who creates or enacts laws.
- especially a member of a legislative body.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Interview”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 249:
- Give the children of the poor that portion of education which will enable them to know their own resources; which will cultivate in them an onward-looking hope, and give them rational amusement in their leisure hours: this, and this only, will work out that moral revolution, which is the legislator's noblest purpose.
- Synonym: lawmaker
- especially not any individual member of a legislative body but the abstracted author of a statute or statutes relevant for the principles of interpretation.
- Synonym: lawmaker
- especially a member of a legislative body.
Translations
editwho creates or enacts laws
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Anagrams
editIndonesian
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin lēgislātor.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlègislator (first-person possessive legislatorku, second-person possessive legislatormu, third-person possessive legislatornya)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “legislator” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
editEtymology
editIn Classical Latin, the word is usually written separately: lēgis lātor
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /leː.ɡisˈlaː.tor/, [ɫ̪eːɡɪs̠ˈɫ̪äːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /le.d͡ʒisˈla.tor/, [led͡ʒizˈläːt̪or]
Noun
editlēgislātor m (genitive lēgislātōris); third declension
- legislator
- c. 130-180 C.E., Gaius, Institutiones, 3.76
- nec me praeterit non satis in ea re legislatorem voluntatem suam verbis expressisse
- It has not escaped my observation, however, that the legislator did not express his intention in this manner in a way which is sufficiently clear.
- c. 130-180 C.E., Gaius, Institutiones, 3.76
Declension
editThird-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | lēgislātor | lēgislātōrēs |
Genitive | lēgislātōris | lēgislātōrum |
Dative | lēgislātōrī | lēgislātōribus |
Accusative | lēgislātōrem | lēgislātōrēs |
Ablative | lēgislātōre | lēgislātōribus |
Vocative | lēgislātor | lēgislātōrēs |
Descendants
edit- Catalan: legislador
- English: legislator
- French: législateur
- Italian: legislatore
- Norman: législateur
- → Polish: legislator
- Portuguese: legislador
- Romanian: legislator
- Spanish: legislador
References
edit- “legislator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- legislator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Polish
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin lēgislātor.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlegislator m pers
- (law) legal expert
- (government, law) legislator (person who creates or enacts laws)
- Synonyms: prawodawca, ustawodawca
Declension
editDeclension of legislator
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | legislator | legislatorzy/legislatory (deprecative) |
genitive | legislatora | legislatorów |
dative | legislatorowi | legislatorom |
accusative | legislatora | legislatorów |
instrumental | legislatorem | legislatorami |
locative | legislatorze | legislatorach |
vocative | legislatorze | legislatorzy |
Related terms
editadjectives
nouns
Further reading
edit- legislator in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- legislator in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French législateur. By surface analysis, legisla + -tor.
Noun
editlegislator m (plural legislatori)
Declension
editDeclension of legislator
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) legislator | legislatorul | (niște) legislatori | legislatorii |
genitive/dative | (unui) legislator | legislatorului | (unor) legislatori | legislatorilor |
vocative | legislatorule | legislatorilor |
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