ordinator

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

ordinator (plural ordinators)

1. One who ordains or establishes; a director.
   • 1629, Thomas Adams, Sermons:

     if nature and her ordinator, God, deny health, how unvaluable are their riches, how unavailable their projects!

   • 1905 January, Ossian H. Lang, “The Educational Outlook”, in The Forum, volume 36, number 3, page 435:

     The plan which has proved most satisfactory is something like this: One teacher, the class ordinator, is made responsible for the general discipline and progress of a class.

   • 1916, Thomas Alexander Lacey, Nature, Miracle and Sin, page 58:

     God is ordinator no less than creator; if he is naturarum bonarum creator, he is also malarum uoluntatum ordinator; if human wills make a bad use of good things , he in turn makes a good use even of evil wills.

   • 1917 January 13, R. Andersen, “Short History of the Danish Reformation”, in The Living Church, volume 56, page 361:

     This is the only synod in America to have an ordinator, and it is here that the Lutheran resembles the Episcopalian. But the ordinator is not consecrated—that is not a Danish custom—his office resembling that of the superintendents in Germany.

   • 2011, Jack Vance, The Killing Machine:

     During the social hour, he went to the office of the assistant ordinator, a weasel-faced man wearing the dark blue Interchange uniform as if it were a privilege.

Related terms

• coordinator

Anagrams

• Radiotron

Latin

Etymology

From ōrdinō +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /oːr.diˈnaː.tor/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /or.diˈna.tor/,

Noun

ōrdinātor m (genitive ōrdinātōris); third declension

1. orderer, regulator, arranger
2. ordainer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Catalan: ordinador
• → French: ordinateur
  • → Romanian: ordinator
  • → Spanish: ordenador
• → Russian: ординатор (ordinator)

Verb

ōrdinātor

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

References

• “ordinator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ordinator 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)
• ordinator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French ordinateur. Equivalent to ordina +‎ -tor.

Noun

ordinator n (plural ordinatoare)

1. computer

Declension