exhibitor

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin exhibitor. First attested in 1654. By surface analysis, exhibit +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĭg-zĭb′ĭ-tər, ĕg-
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzɪb.ɪ.tə/; /ɛɡ-/; /eɡ-/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzɪb.ɪ.təɹ/; /ɛɡ-/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzɪb.ɪ.tə/; /eɡ-/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /əɡˈzəb.ə.tə/; /eɡ-/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzɪb.ɪ.təɾ/; /ɛɡ-/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzɪb.ɪ.ʈɜː(ɾ)/, /ɪɡˈzɪb.ɪ.ʈəɾ/; /ɛ(ː)ɡ-/
• Hyphenation: ex‧hib‧i‧tor

Noun

exhibitor (plural exhibitors)

1. Someone who exhibits something.

   The exhibitors at the aviation conference included the inventor of a new kind of light aircraft.

   • 1984 April 7, Larry Goldsmith, “Gay Expo Organizer: Checks Are in the Mail”, in Gay Community News, page 1:

     The organizer of a canceled business and community fair aimed at the lesbian and gay community says he has mailed refunds to all the exhibitors who reserved booths.

2. (Can we add an example for this sense?) Someone who organizes an exhibition.
3. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) (dated) An exhibitionist.

Derived terms

• exhibitorship

Translations

one who exhibits something

• Indonesian: ekshibitor
• Italian: esibitore
• Maltese: espożitur m, espożitura f
• Spanish: expositor m, expositora f, exhibidor (es) m

one who organizes an exhibition

• Indonesian: ekshibitor
• Italian: espositore
• Maltese: espożitur m, espożitura f
• Spanish: exhibidor (es) m, expositor m

exhibitionist — see exhibitionist

Further reading

• “exhibitor”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Latin

Etymology

From exhibitum + -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛkˈsɪ.bɪ.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eksˈiː.bi.tor]
• Hyphenation: ex‧hi‧bi‧tor

Noun

exhibitor m (genitive exhibitōris, feminine exhibitrīx); third declension (post-classical)

1. exhibitor (one who exhibits something)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	exhibitor	exhibitōrēs
genitive	exhibitōris	exhibitōrum
dative	exhibitōrī	exhibitōribus
accusative	exhibitōrem	exhibitōrēs
ablative	exhibitōre	exhibitōribus
vocative	exhibitor	exhibitōrēs

Further reading

• “exhĭbĭtor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• exhibitor in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 2554
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “exhibitor”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• “exhibitor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page exhibitor.
• "EXHIBITOR", 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)