abbreviator

== English == === Etymology === From Ecclesiastical Latin abbreviātor. Compare French abbréviateur. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈbɹiː.viˌeɪ.tɚ/, /-ɛɪ.tɚ/ (General American) IPA(key): /əˈbɹi.viˌeɪ.tɚ/ === Noun === abbreviator (plural abbreviators) A person who abbreviates or shortens. [early 16th c.] (Roman Catholicism, historical) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty was to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form. [mid 16th c.] ==== Translations ==== === References === == Latin == === Etymology === From abbreviō +‎ -tor. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ab.brɛ.wiˈaː.tɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ab.bre.viˈaː.tor] === Noun === abbreviātor m (genitive abbreviātōris); third declension (Ecclesiastical Latin) an abbreviator ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== → Norwegian Bokmål: abbreviator === Verb === abbreviātor second/third-person singular future passive imperative of abbreviō === References === “abbreviator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. "abbreviator", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) == Norwegian Bokmål == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin abbreviātor. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /abreʋɪˈɑːtʊr/ Rhymes: -ʊr Hyphenation: ab‧bre‧vi‧a‧tor === Noun === abbreviator m (definite singular abbreviatoren, indefinite plural abbreviatorer, definite plural abbreviatorene) (history, Roman Catholicism) abbreviator (one of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.) ==== See also ==== apostolisk protonotar (“protonotary apostolic”) kanselli (“chancery”)