legislator

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• legislatour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

From Latin lēgislātor.

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 (hy) (ōrensdir)
• Czech: zákonodárce (cs) m
• Dutch: wetgever (nl) m
• Esperanto: parlamentano (eo)
• French: législateur (fr) m

• German: Gesetzgeber (de) m
• Greek: νομοθέτης (el) (nomothétis) m
• Persian: قانون‌گذار (fa)
• Spanish: legislador (es) m

Anagrams

• allegorist

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Latin

Etymology

In Classical Latin, the word is usually written separately: lēgis lātor

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /leː.ɡisˈlaː.tor/

Noun

lēgislātor (genitive lēgislātōris); m, third declension

1. legislator
   • c. 130-180 CE, 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.

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	lēgislātor	lēgislātōrēs
genitive	lēgislātōris	lēgislātōrum
dative	lēgislātōrī	lēgislātōribus
accusative	lēgislātōrem	lēgislātōrēs
ablative	lēgislātōre	lēgislātōribus
vocative	lēgislātor	lēgislātōrēs

Descendants

• English: legislator
• French: législateur
• Italian: legislatore
• Portuguese: legislador
• Spanish: legislador

References

• legislator in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879