abbreviator

English

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin abbreviātor. Compare French abbréviateur.

Pronunciation

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

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Noun

abbreviator (plural abbreviators)

1. A person who abbreviates or shortens. [from 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. [from mid-16th c.]

Translations

one who abbreviates

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

papal officer

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: abbreviator m

• Portuguese: breviador m

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Latin

Etymology

From abbreviō +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ab.bre.u̯iˈaː.tor/, [äbːreu̯iˈäːt̪ɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ab.bre.viˈa.tor/, [äbːreviˈäːt̪or]

Noun

abbreviātor m (genitive abbreviātōris); third declension

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) an abbreviator

Declension

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

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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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Norwegian Bokmål

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

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /abreʋɪˈɑːtʊr/

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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. (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.)

   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”)