provisor

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin prōvīsor, agent noun of prōvideō (“provide”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɹəˈvaɪzə(ɹ)/

Noun

provisor (plural provisors)

  1. A deputy of a Roman Catholic bishop.
  2. The holder of a papal provision.
  3. One who provides; a purveyor.

Danish

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Noun

provisor c (singular definite provisoren, plural indefinite provisorer)

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Declension

Declension of provisor
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative provisor provisoren provisorer provisorerne
genitive provisors provisorens provisorers provisorernes

Further reading

Latin

Noun

prōvīsor m (genitive prōvīsōris); third declension

  1. foreseer
  2. lookout
  3. provider
  4. provisor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative prōvīsor prōvīsōrēs
genitive prōvīsōris prōvīsōrum
dative prōvīsōrī prōvīsōribus
accusative prōvīsōrem prōvīsōrēs
ablative prōvīsōre prōvīsōribus
vocative prōvīsor prōvīsōrēs

References

  • “provisor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “provisor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "provisor", 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)
  • provisor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Noun

provisor m (plural provisores)

  1. provisor

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