gubernator

English

Etymology

Back-formation of gubernatorial, from Latin gubernātor (“governor”), from gubernō (“to govern”), +‎ -ial.

Noun

gubernator (plural gubernators)

1. (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]

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Noun

gubernātor m (genitive gubernātōris); third declension

1. 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.

2. 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

• gubernātrīx

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
    • → German: Gouverneur
  • Norman: gouvernaeux, gouverneux (Guernsey), gouvèrneux (Jersey)
  • Walloon: gouverneûr
  • → Middle English: governour, governor, governoure, governowre, governur
    • English: governor (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: governour
    • Yola: governere
• 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)
• → 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