relator

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English

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Etymology

From Latin relator.

Pronunciation

Noun

relator (plural relators)

  1. One who relates, or tells; a relater or narrator.
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller, Church-history of Britain, 1845, J. S. Brewer (editor), Thomas Fuller, The Church History of Britain, Volume 1, page 54,
      He needs almost a miraculous faith to be able to remove mountains, yea, to make the sun stand still, and sometimes to go back, who will undertake to accord the contradictions in time and place between the several relators of this history.
    • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 98:
      Glentworth listened to Isabella's account of her interview with intense interest, though he endeavoured, for the relator's sake, to suppress its warmer expression; but he could not forbear to ask many questions, drawing out, more than once, every word uttered by Margarita, and spoken by Isabella...
  2. One who relates, associates, or links things together.
  3. (law) A private person at whose relation, or in whose behalf, the attorney-general allows an information in the nature of a quo warranto to be filed.
  4. (group theory) An expression of the identity element of a group as a product of generators, used in a presentation (type of specification) of the group.

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin relātōrem.

Pronunciation

Adjective

relator (feminine relatora, masculine plural relators, feminine plural relatores)

  1. narrating

Noun

relator m (plural relators, feminine relatora)

  1. narrator, storyteller
  2. (law) court reporter

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin relator.

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: re‧la‧tor

Noun

relator m (plural relatores)

  1. (law, politics) rapporteur

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin relator.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /relaˈtoɾ/
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: re‧la‧tor

Noun

relator m (plural relatores, feminine relatora, feminine plural relatoras)

  1. relator
    • 2015 September 24, “La conversación que incomoda al Señor Embajador”, in El País‎:
      Por ello cinco relatores de sistemas internacionales de derechos humanos se pronunciaron de forma contundente al expresar “grave preocupación por las recientes medidas del Gobierno de Ecuador para disolver Fundamedios, una destacada organización de la sociedad civil dedicada a la promoción de la libertad de expresión y libertad de medios en ese país.”
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  2. storyteller

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