mandator
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Noun
mandator (plural mandators)
- A director; one who gives a mandate or order.
- (law) The person who employs another to perform a mandate.
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [manˈdaː.tɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [man̪ˈd̪aː.t̪or]
Etymology 1
Noun
mandātor m (genitive mandātōris); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | mandātor | mandātōrēs |
genitive | mandātōris | mandātōrum |
dative | mandātōrī | mandātōribus |
accusative | mandātōrem | mandātōrēs |
ablative | mandātōre | mandātōribus |
vocative | mandātor | mandātōrēs |
Descendants
- → Byzantine Greek: μανδάτωρ (mandátōr)
- Italian: mandatore
Etymology 2
Verb
mandātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of mandō
References
- “mandator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "mandator", 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)
- mandator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.