abbreviator
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ecclesiastical Latin abbreviātor. Compare French abbréviateur.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈbɹiː.viˌeɪ.tə/, /-ɛɪ.tə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈbɹi.viˌeɪ.təɹ/
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Noun[edit]
abbreviator (plural abbreviators)
- A person who abbreviates or shortens. [from early 16th c.][1]
- (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. [from mid-16th c.][1]
Translations[edit]
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References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abbreviator”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3.
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ab.bre.u̯iˈaː.tor/, [äbːreu̯iˈäːt̪ɔr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ab.bre.viˈa.tor/, [äbːreviˈäːt̪or]
Noun[edit]
abbreviātor m (genitive abbreviātōris); third declension
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | abbreviātor | abbreviātōrēs |
Genitive | abbreviātōris | abbreviātōrum |
Dative | abbreviātōrī | abbreviātōribus |
Accusative | abbreviātōrem | abbreviātōrēs |
Ablative | abbreviātōre | abbreviātōribus |
Vocative | abbreviātor | abbreviātōrēs |
Verb[edit]
abbreviātor
References[edit]
- abbreviator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- abbreviator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology[edit]
From Ecclesiastical Latin abbreviātor, future passive imperative of abbreviō (“I shorten, abbreviate, abridge”), from both ad- (“to”), from ad (“to, towards, up to”), from Proto-Italic *ad (“toward, to, on, up to, for”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“to, at”) + and from breviō (“I shorten, abbreviate, abridge”), from both brevis (“short, small; brief, low”), from Proto-Italic *breɣʷis (“short, small”), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“short, brief”), from *mreǵʰ- (“short”) + and from -ō, from Proto-Italic *-āō or *-aēō, from Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂-yé-ti.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
abbreviator m (definite singular abbreviatoren, indefinite plural abbreviatorer, definite plural abbreviatorene)
- (historical, 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.)
See also[edit]
- apostolisk protonotar (“protonotary apostolic”)
- kanselli (“chancery”)
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