legislator

• legislatour (obsolete, rare)

From Latin lēgislātor.

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legislator (plural legislators)

1. Someone who creates or enacts laws.
   1. especially a member of a legislative body.
      • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Interview”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 249:

        Give the children of the poor that portion of education which will enable them to know their own resources; which will cultivate in them an onward-looking hope, and give them rational amusement in their leisure hours: this, and this only, will work out that moral revolution, which is the legislator's noblest purpose.

      Synonym: lawmaker

   2. especially not any individual member of a legislative body but the abstracted author of a statute or statutes relevant for the principles of interpretation.

      Synonym: lawmaker

• allegorist

Learned borrowing from Latin lēgislātor.

• IPA^(key): [lɛɡɪsˈlatɔr]
• Hyphenation: lè‧gis‧la‧tor

lègislator (plural legislator-legislator)

1. legislator

• “legislator” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

In Classical Latin, the word is usually written separately: lēgis lātor

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫeː.ɡɪsˈɫaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [le.d͡ʒizˈlaː.t̪or]

lēgislātor m (genitive lēgislātōris); third declension

1. legislator
   • c. 130-180 C.E., Gaius, Institutiones, 3.76

     nec me praeterit non satis in ea re legislatorem voluntatem suam verbis expressisse

     It has not escaped my observation, however, that the legislator did not express his intention in this manner in a way which is sufficiently clear.

2. lawgiver

Third-declension noun.

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

Learned borrowing from Latin lēgislātor.

• IPA^(key): /lɛ.ɡiˈsla.tɔr/

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• Rhymes: -atɔr
• Syllabification: le‧gi‧sla‧tor

legislator m pers

1. (law) legal expert
2. (government, law) legislator (person who creates or enacts laws)

   Synonyms: prawodawca, ustawodawca

• legislator in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• legislator in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French législateur. By surface analysis, legisla +‎ -tor.

legislator m (plural legislatori)

1. legislator