dispensator
English
Etymology
Latin
Noun
dispensator (plural dispensators)
- A distributor; a person who dispenses.
- c. 1598, Francis Bacon, An Account of […] Compositions for Alienations
- dispensators of this her royal favour towards her people
- c. 1598, Francis Bacon, An Account of […] Compositions for Alienations
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dispensator in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- panstroside
Latin
Noun
dispēnsātor m (genitive dispēnsātōris); third declension
- steward, attendant
- treasurer
- dispenser
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | dispēnsātor | dispēnsātōrēs |
| Genitive | dispēnsātōris | dispēnsātōrum |
| Dative | dispēnsātōrī | dispēnsātōribus |
| Accusative | dispēnsātōrem | dispēnsātōrēs |
| Ablative | dispēnsātōre | dispēnsātōribus |
| Vocative | dispēnsātor | dispēnsātōrēs |
Descendants
- Catalan: dispensador
- French: dispensateur
- Galician: dispensador
- Italian: dispensatore
- Portuguese: dispensador
- Spanish: dispensador
References
- “dispensator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dispensator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dispensator 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)
- dispensator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “dispensator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “dispensator”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French dispensateur or Latin dispensator.
Adjective
dispensator m or n (feminine singular dispensatoare, masculine plural dispensatori, feminine and neuter plural dispensatoare)
- dispenser
Declension
Declension of dispensator
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative | indefinite | dispensator | dispensatoare | dispensatori | dispensatoare | ||
| definite | dispensatorul | dispensatoarea | dispensatorii | dispensatoarele | |||
| genitive/ dative | indefinite | dispensator | dispensatoare | dispensatori | dispensatoare | ||
| definite | dispensatorului | dispensatoarei | dispensatorilor | dispensatoarelor | |||