legislator

English

Alternative forms

• legislatour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin lēgislātor.

Noun

legislator (plural legislators)

1. Someone who creates or enacts laws, especially a member of a legislative body.

Synonyms

• lawmaker

Translations

who creates or enacts laws

• Armenian: օրենսդիր (hy) (ōrensdir)
• Catalan: legislador m, legisladora f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 立法者 (lìfǎzhě)

• Czech: zákonodárce m, zákonodárkyně (cs) f
• Danish: lovgiver c, lovgiverinde c (female), lovgiverske c (female)
• Dutch: wetgever (nl) m, wetgeefster f
• Esperanto: parlamentano, parlamentanino (female)
• Estonian: seadusandja
• Finnish: lainsäätäjä (fi)
• French: législateur (fr) m, législatrice (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Gesetzgeber (de) m, Gesetzgeberin f
• Greek: νομοθέτης (el) m (nomothétis), νομοθέτις f (nomothétis)

  Ancient: νομοθέτης m (nomothétēs)

• Irish: reachtóir m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: legislatore (it) m, legislatrice (it) f
• Japanese: 立法者 (りっぽうしゃ, rippōsha)
• Korean: 입법자 (ipbeopja)
• Latin: lēgislātor m
• Maori: kaihanga ture, kaiwhakature
• Norman: législateu m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lovgiver m

  Nynorsk: lovgivar m, lovgjevar m

• Persian: قانون‌گذار (qânun-gozâr)
• Portuguese: legislador (pt) m, legisladora f
• Romanian: legiuitor (ro) m, legiuitoare (ro) f, legislator (ro) m, legislatoare f
• Russian: законода́тель (ru) m (zakonodátelʹ), законода́тельница (ru) f (zakonodátelʹnica)
• Slovak: zákonodarca m, zákonodarkyňa f
• Spanish: legislador (es) m, legisladora (es) f
• Swedish: lagstiftare c, lagstifterska c (female)
• Ukrainian: законода́вець m (zakonodávecʹ), законода́виця f (zakonodávycja)
• Vietnamese: người làm luật, người lập pháp
• Welsh: deddfwr m

Anagrams

• allegorist

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Latin

Etymology

In Classical Latin, the word is usually written separately: lēgis lātor

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /leː.ɡisˈlaː.tor/, [ɫ̪eːɡɪs̠ˈɫ̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /le.d͡ʒisˈla.tor/, [led͡ʒizˈläːt̪or]

Noun

lēgislātor m (genitive lēgislātōris); third declension

1. legislator
   • c. 130-180 C.E., Gaius, Institutiones, 3.76

     nec me praeterit non satis in ea re legislatorem voluntatem suam verbis expressisse

     It has not escaped my observation, however, that the legislator did not express his intention in this manner in a way which is sufficiently clear.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lēgislātor	lēgislātōrēs
Genitive	lēgislātōris	lēgislātōrum
Dative	lēgislātōrī	lēgislātōribus
Accusative	lēgislātōrem	lēgislātōrēs
Ablative	lēgislātōre	lēgislātōribus
Vocative	lēgislātor	lēgislātōrēs

Descendants

• English: legislator
• French: législateur
• Italian: legislatore

• Norman: législateur
• Portuguese: legislador
• Spanish: legislador

References

• “legislator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• legislator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.