abbreviator

From Ecclesiastical Latin abbreviātor. Compare French abbréviateur.

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

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abbreviator (plural abbreviators)

1. A person who abbreviates or shortens. [from 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. [from mid-16th c.][1]

From abbreviō +‎ -tor.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ab.bre.u̯iˈaː.tor/, [äbːreu̯iˈäːt̪ɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ab.bre.viˈa.tor/, [äbːreviˈäːt̪or]

abbreviātor m (genitive abbreviātōris); third declension

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) an abbreviator

Third-declension noun.

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)

From Ecclesiastical Latin abbreviātor, future passive imperative of abbreviō (“I shorten, abbreviate, abridge”), from both ad- (“to”), from ad (“to, towards, up to”), from Proto-Italic *ad (“toward, to, on, up to, for”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“to, at”) + and from breviō (“I shorten, abbreviate, abridge”), from both brevis (“short, small; brief, low”), from Proto-Italic *breɣʷis (“short, small”), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“short, brief”), from *mreǵʰ- (“short”) + and from -ō, from Proto-Italic *-āō or *-aēō, from Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂-yé-ti.

• 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. (historical, 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”)