abbreviator

English

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin abbreviātor. Compare French abbréviateur.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈbɹiː.viˌeɪ.tɚ/, /-ɛɪ.tɚ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈbɹi.viˌeɪ.tɚ/

• Audio (Canada):

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Noun

abbreviator (plural abbreviators)

1. A person who abbreviates or shortens. [early 16th c.]
2. (Roman Catholicism, historical) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty was 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 c.]

Translations

one who abbreviates

• Arabic: مُخْتَصِر m (muḵtaṣir)
• Dutch: afkorter m
• Polish: abrewiator m
• Portuguese: abreviador m

papal officer

• Catalan: abreviador m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: abbreviator m

• Portuguese: breviador m
• Spanish: abreviador (es) m

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin abbreviō

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Latin abbreviātor

From abbreviō + -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ab.brɛ.wiˈaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ab.bre.viˈaː.tor]

Noun

abbreviātor m (genitive abbreviātōris); third declension

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) an abbreviator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	abbreviātor	abbreviātōrēs
genitive	abbreviātōris	abbreviātōrum
dative	abbreviātōrī	abbreviātōribus
accusative	abbreviātōrem	abbreviātōrēs
ablative	abbreviātōre	abbreviātōribus
vocative	abbreviātor	abbreviātōrēs

Descendants

• → Norwegian Bokmål: abbreviator

Verb

abbreviātor

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

References

• “abbreviator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "abbreviator", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Bokmål

Door of the house of Prospero Mochi (16th century Pope's abbreviator) in Via dei Coronari, Rome.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin abbreviātor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abreʋɪˈɑːtʊr/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ʊr
• Hyphenation: ab‧bre‧vi‧a‧tor

Noun

abbreviator m (definite singular abbreviatoren, indefinite plural abbreviatorer, definite plural abbreviatorene)

1. (history, Roman Catholicism) abbreviator (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.)

   Pius II opprettet i 1463 et kollegium av abbreviatorer.

   Pius II established a college of abbreviators in 1463.

See also

• apostolisk protonotar (“protonotary apostolic”)
• kanselli (“chancery”)