mandator

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

mandator (plural mandators)

1. A director; one who gives a mandate or order.
2. (law) The person who employs another to perform a mandate.

Anagrams

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /manˈdaː.tor/, [män̪ˈd̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /manˈda.tor/, [män̪ˈd̪äːt̪or]

Etymology 1

From mandō +‎ -tor.

Noun

mandātor m (genitive mandātōris); third declension

1. mandator, commander, director

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mandātor	mandātōrēs
Genitive	mandātōris	mandātōrum
Dative	mandātōrī	mandātōribus
Accusative	mandātōrem	mandātōrēs
Ablative	mandātōre	mandātōribus
Vocative	mandātor	mandātōrēs

Descendants

• → Byzantine Greek: μανδάτωρ (mandátōr)
• Italian: mandatore

Etymology 2

Verb

mandātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of mandō

References

• “mandator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mandator 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)
• mandator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.