legislator

English

Alternative forms

• legislatour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin Template:term/t.

Noun

legislator (plural legislators)

1. Someone who creates or enacts laws, especially a member of a legislative body.

Synonyms

• lawmaker

Translations

who creates or enacts laws

• Armenian: օրենսդիր (ōrensdir)
• Catalan: legislador
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 立法者 (lìfǎzhě)

• Czech: zákonodárce m
• Dutch: wetgever m
• Esperanto: parlamentano
• Estonian: seadusandja
• French: législateur (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Gesetzgeber (de) m, Gesetzgeberin f
• Greek: νομοθέτης (el) m (nomothétis)
• Italian: legislatore (it) m
• Japanese: 立法者 (りっぽうしゃ, rippōsha)
• Jèrriais: Template:tø
• Latin: lēgislātor m
• Persian: قانون‌گذار (qânun-gozâr)
• Russian: законодатель (ru) m (zakonodátelʹ), законодательница (ru) f (zakonodátelʹnica)
• Spanish: legislador (es) m

Anagrams

• allegorist

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Latin

Etymology

In Classical Latin, the word is usually written separately: Template:term/t Template:term/t

Pronunciation

• (Classical) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /leː.ɡisˈlaː.tor/

Noun

1. 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.

Descendants

• English: Template:l/en
• French: Template:l/fr
• Italian: legislatore

• Jèrriais:
• Portuguese: Template:l/pt
• Spanish: Template:l/es

References

• “legislator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press