dispensator

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English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin

Noun

dispensator (plural dispensators)

  1. A distributor; a dispenser.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dispensator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams


Latin

Noun

dispēnsātor m (genitive dispēnsātōris); third declension

  1. steward, attendant
  2. treasurer
  3. dispenser

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dispēnsātor dispēnsātōrēs
Genitive dispēnsātōris dispēnsātōrum
Dative dispēnsātōrī dispēnsātōribus
Accusative dispēnsātōrem dispēnsātōrēs
Ablative dispēnsātōre dispēnsātōribus
Vocative dispēnsātor dispēnsātōrēs

References

  • dispensator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • dispensator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • dispensator 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)
  • dispensator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • dispensator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • dispensator”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin