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Ido
Verb
elektor
- future infinitive of elektar
Polish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin ēlēctor.[1] First attested in 1564.[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛˈlɛk.tɔr/
- Rhymes: -ɛktɔr
- Syllabification: e‧lek‧tor
Noun
elektor m pers (related adjective elektorski)
- (politics) elector, constituent, voter (person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate)
- Synonym: wyborca
- (politics) elector (member of an electoral college)
- (US politics) elector (official selected by a state as a member of the Electoral College to elect the president and vice president of the United States)
- (feudalism, German politics, historical) Elector, prince-elector (German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire)
- Synonym: kurfirst
- Hypernym: władca
- (Roman Catholicism) member of the College of Cardinals
- Hypernym: kardynał
Declension
Derived terms
References
- ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “elektor”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “elektor”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
Further reading
- elektor in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- elektor in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- elektor in PWN's encyclopedia
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “elektor”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- “ELEKTOR”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2016 November 17
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “elektor”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “elektor”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 687
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin elector.
Noun
elektor c
- elector (person chosen to vote on behalf of others)
Usage notes
Most commonly used to describe members of the United States Electoral College.
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading