abbreviator

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English

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin abbreviātor. Compare French abbréviateur.

Pronunciation

Noun

abbreviator (plural abbreviators)

  1. A person who abbreviates or shortens. [1]
  2. (Roman Catholicism, historical) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty was to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form. [1]

Translations

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abbreviator”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3.

Latin

Etymology

From abbreviō +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

Noun

abbreviātor m (genitive abbreviātōris); third declension

  1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) an abbreviator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

  • Norwegian Bokmål: abbreviator

Verb

abbreviātor

  1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of abbreviō

References

Norwegian Bokmål

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Door of the house of Prospero Mochi (16th century Pope's abbreviator) in Via dei Coronari, Rome.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin abbreviātor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /abreʋɪˈɑːtʊr/
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  • Rhymes: -ʊr
  • Hyphenation: ab‧bre‧vi‧a‧tor

Noun

abbreviator m (definite singular abbreviatoren, indefinite plural abbreviatorer, definite plural abbreviatorene)

  1. (history, Roman Catholicism) abbreviator (one of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.)
    Pius II opprettet i 1463 et kollegium av abbreviatorer.
    Pius II established a college of abbreviators in 1463.

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