gubernator
English
Etymology
Back-formation of gubernatorial, from Latin gubernātor (“governor”), from gubernō (“to govern”), + -ial.
Noun
gubernator (plural gubernators)
- (humorous) governor
- 2003 September, “Stanford poll: Terminator in lead to become gubernator”, in Silicon Valley Business Journal[1], title:
- Stanford poll: Terminator in lead to become gubernator
- 2010 September 30, Hagar, “California's Gubernator caves ...”, in alt.alien.visitors (Usenet):
- So, why don't we send the gubernator back to Austria, […] and sponsor a collective effort to repeal the Loud Pipes Law and that ludicrous Healthcare Abomination.
- 2013 May 24, ChasNemo, “Texas Sheriff Exam ...”, in alt.alien.visitors (Usenet):
- So what test did Gubernator Perry pass to became such a brain dead dipshit?
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Latin
Etymology
From gubernō (“to pilot, govern”) + -tor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ɡu.berˈnaː.tor/, [ɡʊbɛrˈnäːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ɡu.berˈna.tor/, [ɡuberˈnäːt̪or]
Audio: (file)
Noun
gubernātor m (genitive gubernātōris); third declension
- Helmsman or pilot of a boat.
- Unknown origin, often attributed to Publilius Syrus
- In tranquillo esse quisque gubernator potest.
- In a calm sea anyone can be the helmsman.
- In tranquillo esse quisque gubernator potest.
- Unknown origin, often attributed to Publilius Syrus
- Leader or governor.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | gubernātor | gubernātōrēs |
Genitive | gubernātōris | gubernātōrum |
Dative | gubernātōrī | gubernātōribus |
Accusative | gubernātōrem | gubernātōrēs |
Ablative | gubernātōre | gubernātōribus |
Vocative | gubernātor | gubernātōrēs |
Related terms
Descendants
- Franco-Provençal: govèrnor
- Gallo-Italic
- Emilian: gvernatåur
- Lombard: governatur
- Piedmontese: guvernatur
- Sicilian: governaturi
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Corsican: guvernatore, guvernadore
- Italian: governatore
- Istriot: guvarnadur
- Old French: gouvreneur, governeor, governur
- Middle French: gouverneur
- French: gouverneur (see there for further descendants)
- → Middle Dutch: gouverneur
- Dutch: gouverneur
- Afrikaans: goewerneur
- Negerhollands: guwerneer
- → Lokono: gouverneur
- → Indonesian: gubernur
- Limburgish: goevernäör
- Dutch: gouverneur
- → German: Gouverneur
- Norman: gouvernaeux, gouverneux (Guernsey), gouvèrneux (Jersey)
- Walloon: gouverneûr
- → Middle English: governour, governor, governoure, governowre, governur
- Middle French: gouverneur
- Old Occitan: governador
- Occitan: governador
- Old Catalan: governador
- Catalan: governador
- Rhaeto-Romance
- Friulian: guviernadôr
- Ladin: goernador
- Romansch: guvernatur
- Sabir: gobernator
- Sardinian: cuberradore
- West Iberian
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: gobernador, gobernaor
- Mirandese: gobernador
- Old Galician-Portuguese: governador
- Galician: gobernador
- Portuguese: governador (see there for further descendants)
- Old Spanish: gouernador
- Ladino: gobernador
- Spanish: gobernador (see there for further descendants)
- Old Leonese:
- → Bulgarian: губернатор (gubernator)
- → Georgian: გუბერნატორი (gubernaṭori)
- → Hindi: गवर्नर (gavarnar)
- → Latvian: gubernators
- → Macedonian: губернатор (gubernator)
- → Polish: gubernator
- → Russian: губернатор (gubernator)
- → Tajik: губернатор (gubernator)
References
- “gubernator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “gubernator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- gubernator 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)
- gubernator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “gubernator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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