abbreviator
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
- Late Latin abbreviātor.
- Compare French abbréviateur.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
abbreviator (plural abbreviators)
- Agent noun of abbreviate; one who abbreviates or shortens. [Early 16th century.][1]
- (history, Roman Catholicism) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form. [Mid 16th century.][1]
Translations [edit]
papal officer
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References [edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 2003 [1933], Brown, Lesley editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, edition 5th, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, page 3:
Latin [edit]
Verb [edit]
abbreviātor
