abbreviator
English
Etymology
From Late Latin abbreviātor. Compare French abbréviateur.
Pronunciation
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Noun
abbreviator (plural abbreviators)
- Agent noun of abbreviate; one who abbreviates or shortens. [Early 16th century.][1]
- (history, 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
one who abbreviates
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papal officer
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References
- ↑ 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
Verb
(deprecated template usage) abbreviātor
- second-person singular future passive imperative of abbreviō
- third-person singular future passive imperative of abbreviō
References
- 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)