administrator Latin · revision 9421

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cicero|origins=la minister}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ad.mɪ.nɪsˈtraː.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ad.mi.nisˈtraː.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''administrātor''' ''m'' (genitive administrātōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[administrō]] “to manage, direct” with the agent suffix [[-tor]]; ⟨administrō⟩ is from [[ad-]] and [[ministrō]] “to serve, manage”, from [[minister]] “servant”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Gaffiot and Köbler cite Cicero's ''De oratore'', ''bellī gerendī administrātor'' “one in charge of conducting a war”.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a person in charge of an operation, a director, manager, as in Cicero, and Lewis & Short explain it as one who is at hand to help.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ Medieval Latin used it for a public officer.^(Niermeyer 1976) In Ecclesiastical Latin it was one who administers, especially a person appointed to administer a vacant parish or diocese.^(Stelten 1995) [[en|administrator]] (mid-15th century, “one given authority to manage”) came through Old French or directly from Latin.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-15th century – English ''administrator'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A director, [[m|en|manager]], one in charge.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A public officer; an [[m|en|administrator]] of a vacant see or parish.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[administrō]]

+ * [[administrātiō]]

+ * [[minister]]

+ * [[en|administrator]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}