negotiator

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin negōtiātor (“merchant, banker”), equivalent to negotiate +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /nɪˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪ.tə/, /nəˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪ.tə/, /nɪˈɡəʊ.si.eɪ.tə/
- Audio (Southern England): (file)
(General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /nɪˈɡoʊ.ʃi.eɪ.tɚ/, [nɪˈɡoʊ.ʃi.eɪ.ɾɚ]

Noun

negotiator (plural negotiators)

One who negotiates.
A diplomat, moderator.

Derived terms

hostage negotiator

Translations

one who negotiates

Belarusian: перамо́ўнік m (pjeramóŭnik), перамо́ўніца f (pjeramóŭnica), перамо́ўшчык m (pjeramóŭščyk), перамо́ўшчыца f (pjeramóŭščyca)
Bulgarian: прегова́рящ (bg) m (pregovárjašt)
Finnish: sovittelija (fi)
French: (to end up with a bad situation, to free hostages) négociateur (fr) m, négociatrice (fr) f, (to buy goods with a better price) négociant (fr) m
Galician: negociador (gl) m, negociadora f
German: Unterhändler (de) m, Unterhändlerin (de) f, Verhandlungsführer m, Verhandlungsführerin f
Indonesian: negosiator (id), juru runding (id)
Italian: negoziatore (it) m, negoziatrice (it) f
Latin: interpres m or f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: forhandler m
Portuguese: negociador (pt) m, negociadora f
Russian: перегово́рщик (ru) m (peregovórščik), перегово́рщица (ru) f (peregovórščica), парламентёр (ru) m (parlamentjór)
Spanish: negociador (es) m, negociadora (es) f
Ukrainian: перемо́вник m (peremóvnyk), перемо́вниця f (peremóvnycja), перегово́рник m (perehovórnyk), перегово́рниця f (perehovórnycja), парламенте́р m (parlamentér)

a diplomat, moderator

Finnish: sovittelija (fi)
French: négociateur (fr) m, négociatrice (fr) f, diplomate (fr) m or f
German: Vermittler (de) m, Vermittlerin (de) f
Russian: посре́дник (ru) m (posrédnik), посре́дница (ru) f (posrédnica)
Ukrainian: посере́дник m (poserédnyk), посере́дниця f (poserédnycja)

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Czech: vyjednavač (cs) m, vyjednávač m
Telugu: బేరగాడు (te) (bēragāḍu)

Latin

Etymology

From negōtior (“do business”) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [nɛ.ɡoː.tiˈaː.tɔr]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ne.ɡot̪.t̪͡s̪iˈaː.t̪or]

Noun

negōtiātor m (genitive negōtiātōris); third declension

merchant, businessman, dealer, trader, wholesaler
banker

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	negōtiātor	negōtiātōrēs
genitive	negōtiātōris	negōtiātōrum
dative	negōtiātōrī	negōtiātōribus
accusative	negōtiātōrem	negōtiātōrēs
ablative	negōtiātōre	negōtiātōribus
vocative	negōtiātor	negōtiātōrēs

Derived terms

negōtiātorius

Related terms

Descendants

Catalan: negociador
English: negotiator
French: négociateur
- → Romanian: negociator
Galician: negociador
Italian: negoziatore
Portuguese: negociador
Old Romanian: neguțător
- Romanian: negustor
Spanish: negociador

References

“negotiator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“negotiator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
negotiator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- business-men: negotiatores (Verr. 2. 69. 168)