dispensator

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English

Etymology

From Latin dispēnsātor.

Noun

dispensator (plural dispensators)

  1. A distributor; a person who dispenses.
    Coordinate term: dispensatrix
    • c. 1598, Francis Bacon, An Account of Compositions for Alienations:
      dispensators of this her royal favour towards her people

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dispensator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From dispēnsō +‎ -tor.

Noun

dispēnsātor m (genitive dispēnsātōris, feminine dispēnsātrīx); third declension

  1. steward, attendant
  2. treasurer
  3. dispenser

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative dispēnsātor dispēnsātōrēs
genitive dispēnsātōris dispēnsātōrum
dative dispēnsātōrī dispēnsātōribus
accusative dispēnsātōrem dispēnsātōrēs
ablative dispēnsātōre dispēnsātōribus
vocative dispēnsātor dispēnsātōrēs

Descendants

References

  • “dispensator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “dispensator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • dispensator 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)
  • dispensator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “dispensator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “dispensator”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French dispensateur or Latin dispensator. By surface analysis, dispensa +‎ -tor.

Adjective

dispensator m or n (feminine singular dispensatoare, masculine plural dispensatori, feminine and neuter plural dispensatoare)

  1. dispenser

Declension

singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative 		indefinite dispensator dispensatoare dispensatori dispensatoare
definite dispensatorul dispensatoarea dispensatorii dispensatoarele
genitive-
dative 		indefinite dispensator dispensatoare dispensatori dispensatoare
definite dispensatorului dispensatoarei dispensatorilor dispensatoarelor
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