negotiator

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin negōtiātor (“merchant, banker”), equivalent to negotiate +‎ -ator

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɪˈɡoʊ.ʃi.eɪ.tɚ/

Noun

negotiator (plural negotiators)

1. One who negotiates.
2. A diplomat, moderator.

Translations

One who negotiates

• Finnish: sovittelija (fi)
• French: (to end up with a bad situation, to free hostages) négociateur (fr) m, négociatrice (fr) f, (to buy goods with a better price) négociant (fr) m
• Galician: negociador (gl) m, negociadora f
• Indonesian: negosiator (id)
• Italian: negoziatore (it) m, negoziatrice (it) f
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• Latin: interpres m or f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forhandler m

• Portuguese: negociador (pt) m, negociadora f
• Spanish: negociador (es) m, negociadora (es) f

A diplomat, moderator

• Finnish: sovittelija (fi)
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• French: négociateur (fr) m, négociatrice (fr) f, diplomate (fr) m or f

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• Czech: vyjednavač (cs) m, vyjednávač m
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• Telugu: బేరగాడు (te) (bēragāḍu)

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Latin

Etymology

From negōtior (“do business”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ne.ɡoː.tiˈaː.tor/, [nɛɡoːt̪iˈäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ne.ɡot.t͡siˈa.tor/, [neɡot̪ː͡s̪iˈäːt̪or]

Noun

negōtiātor m (genitive negōtiātōris); third declension

1. merchant, businessman, dealer, trader
2. banker

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	negōtiātor	negōtiātōrēs
Genitive	negōtiātōris	negōtiātōrum
Dative	negōtiātōrī	negōtiātōribus
Accusative	negōtiātōrem	negōtiātōrēs
Ablative	negōtiātōre	negōtiātōribus
Vocative	negōtiātor	negōtiātōrēs

Derived terms

• negōtiātorius

Related terms

• negōtiālis
• negōtiāns
• negōtiātiō
• negōtiolum

• negōtior
• negōtiōsus
• negōtium

Descendants

• English: negotiator
• French: négociateur
• Galician: negociador
• Italian: negoziatore

• Portuguese: negociador
• Romanian: negociator, negustor
• Spanish: negociador

References

• “negotiator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “negotiator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• negotiator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • business-men: negotiatores (Verr. 2. 69. 168)