abbreviator

From Ecclesiastical Latin abbreviātor. Compare French abbréviateur.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈbɹiː.viˌeɪ.tɚ/, /-ɛɪ.tɚ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈbɹi.viˌeɪ.tɚ/

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abbreviator (plural abbreviators)

1. A person who abbreviates or shortens. [early 16th c.]^[1]
2. (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.]^[1]

From abbreviō +‎ -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ab.brɛ.wiˈaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ab.bre.viˈaː.t̪or]

abbreviātor m (genitive abbreviātōris); third declension

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) an abbreviator

Third-declension noun.

• → Norwegian Bokmål: abbreviator

abbreviātor

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

• abbreviator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "abbreviator", 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)

Borrowed from Latin abbreviātor.

• IPA^(key): /abreʋɪˈɑːtʊr/

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• Rhymes: -ʊr
• Hyphenation: ab‧bre‧vi‧a‧tor

abbreviator m (definite singular abbreviatoren, indefinite plural abbreviatorer, definite plural abbreviatorene)

1. (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.)

   Pius II opprettet i 1463 et kollegium av abbreviatorer.

   Pius II established a college of abbreviators in 1463.

• apostolisk protonotar (“protonotary apostolic”)
• kanselli (“chancery”)