abbreviator
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Late Latin abbreviātor. Compare French abbréviateur.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈbɹiː.viˌeɪ.tə/, /-ɛɪ.tə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈbɹi.viˌeɪ.təɹ/
Noun[edit]
abbreviator (plural abbreviators)
- Agent noun of abbreviate; one who abbreviates or shortens. [Early 16th century.][1]
- (historical, 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]
one who abbreviates
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papal officer
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References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “abbreviator” in Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-19-860457-0, page 3.
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
abbreviātor
- second-person singular future passive imperative of abbreviō
- third-person singular future passive imperative of abbreviō
References[edit]
- du Cange, Charles (1883), “abbreviator”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
