legislator
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English
Alternative forms
- legislatour (obsolete, rare)
Etymology
From Latin lēgislātor.
Noun
legislator (plural legislators)
- Someone who creates or enacts laws.
- especially a member of a legislative body.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Interview”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 249:
- Give the children of the poor that portion of education which will enable them to know their own resources; which will cultivate in them an onward-looking hope, and give them rational amusement in their leisure hours: this, and this only, will work out that moral revolution, which is the legislator's noblest purpose.
- Synonym: lawmaker
- especially not any individual member of a legislative body but the abstracted author of a statute or statutes relevant for the principles of interpretation.
- Synonym: lawmaker
- especially a member of a legislative body.
Translations
who creates or enacts laws
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Anagrams
Indonesian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin lēgislātor.
Pronunciation
Noun
lègislator (first-person possessive legislatorku, second-person possessive legislatormu, third-person possessive legislatornya)
Related terms
Further reading
- “legislator” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
Etymology
In Classical Latin, the word is usually written separately: lēgis lātor
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /leː.ɡisˈlaː.tor/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /le.d͡ʒisˈla.tor/,
Noun
lēgislātor m (genitive lēgislātōris); third declension
- legislator
- c. 130-180 C.E., Gaius, Institutiones, 3.76
- nec me praeterit non satis in ea re legislatorem voluntatem suam verbis expressisse
- It has not escaped my observation, however, that the legislator did not express his intention in this manner in a way which is sufficiently clear.
- c. 130-180 C.E., Gaius, Institutiones, 3.76
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | lēgislātor | lēgislātōrēs |
| Genitive | lēgislātōris | lēgislātōrum |
| Dative | lēgislātōrī | lēgislātōribus |
| Accusative | lēgislātōrem | lēgislātōrēs |
| Ablative | lēgislātōre | lēgislātōribus |
| Vocative | lēgislātor | lēgislātōrēs |
Descendants
- Catalan: legislador
- English: legislator
- French: législateur
- Italian: legislatore
- Norman: législateur
- → Polish: legislator
- Portuguese: legislador
- Romanian: legislator
- Spanish: legislador
References
- “legislator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- legislator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Polish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin lēgislātor.
Pronunciation
Noun
legislator m pers
- (law) legal expert
- (government, law) legislator (person who creates or enacts laws)
- Synonyms: prawodawca, ustawodawca
Declension
Declension of legislator
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | legislator | legislatorzy/legislatory (deprecative) |
| genitive | legislatora | legislatorów |
| dative | legislatorowi | legislatorom |
| accusative | legislatora | legislatorów |
| instrumental | legislatorem | legislatorami |
| locative | legislatorze | legislatorach |
| vocative | legislatorze | legislatorzy |
Related terms
adjectives
nouns
Further reading
- legislator in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- legislator in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French législateur. By surface analysis, legisla + -tor.
Noun
legislator m (plural legislatori)
Declension
Declension of legislator
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) legislator | legislatorul | (niște) legislatori | legislatorii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) legislator | legislatorului | (unor) legislatori | legislatorilor |
| vocative | legislatorule | legislatorilor | ||