moderator

See also: Moderator and moderátor

English

Alternative forms

• moderatour (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Noun

moderator (plural moderators)

1. someone who moderates
   • Walton

     Angling was […] a moderator of passions.

   1. an arbitrator or mediator
   2. the chair or president of a meeting etc.
   3. (Internet) A person who enforces the rules of a discussion forum by deleting posts, banning users, etc.
2. the person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian Church
3. (physics) a substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission
4. a device used to deaden some of the noise from a firearm, although not to the same extent as a suppressor or silencer.
5. (UK) An examiner at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
   • 1792, Anthony à Wood, The History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford: In Two Books‎^[1], volume 1, Oxford: John Gutch, →OCLC, page 661:

     One hall called Civil Law Hall or School, flouriſhed about this time (though in its buildings decayed) by the care of the learned and judicious Dr. Will. Warham Principal or Moderator thereof […]

6. (Ireland) At the University of Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
7. (UK) someone who supervises and monitors the setting and marking of examinations by different people to ensure consistency of standards.
8. A mechanical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.
9. (historical) A kind of lamp in which the flow of the oil to the wick is regulated.

Translations

someone who moderates

• Catalan: moderador m
• Czech: moderátor (cs) m, moderátorka f
• Esperanto: moderatoro, moderiganto, moderigisto
• Finnish: moderaattori (fi)
• French: modérateur (fr) m
• German: Moderator (de) m
• Hebrew: מפקח m (méfakéah')
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: moderátor
• Italian: moderatore (it) m
• Kalmyk: аядгч (ayadgç)
• Polish: moderator (pl) m
• Russian: модера́тор (ru) m (modɛrátor)
• Spanish: moderador m, moderadora (es) f
• Tagalog: panamtam

person who presides over the synod of the Presbyterian church

• Maori: Motoreta
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

(Internet) A person who enforces the rules of a forum

• Arabic: مُشْرِف m (mušrif)
• Esperanto: moderatoro, moderiganto
• German: Moderator (de) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: moderatore (it) m
• Polish: moderator (pl) m

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /mo.deˈraː.tor/, [mɔd̪ɛˈräːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mo.deˈra.tor/, [mod̪eˈräːt̪or]

Noun

moderātor m (genitive moderātōris); third declension

1. manager, ruler, governor, director
2. moderator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	moderātor	moderātōrēs
Genitive	moderātōris	moderātōrum
Dative	moderātōrī	moderātōribus
Accusative	moderātōrem	moderātōrēs
Ablative	moderātōre	moderātōribus
Vocative	moderātor	moderātōrēs

Verb

(deprecated template usage) moderātor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of moderō
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of moderō

Descendants

• English: moderator
• French: modérateur
• Italian: moderatore
• Portuguese: moderador
• Spanish: moderador

References

• “moderator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “moderator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• moderator 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)
• moderator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

moderator m (Cyrillic spelling модератор)

1. moderator