different between abbreviator vs abbreviatory

English

Etymology

From Late Latin abbrevi?tor. Compare French abbréviateur.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??b?i?.vi?e?.t?/, /-??.t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??b?i.vi?e?.t??/

Noun

abbreviator (plural abbreviators)

1. Agent noun of abbreviate; one who abbreviates or shortens. [Early 16^th century.]
2. (historical, Roman Catholicism) 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. [Mid 16^th century.]

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Latin

Verb

abbrevi?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of abbrevi?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of abbrevi?

References

• abbreviator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Late Latin abbrevi?tor, future passive imperative of abbrevi? (“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 *h?éd (“to, at”) + and from brevi? (“I shorten, abbreviate, abridge”), from both brevis (“short, small; brief, low”), from Proto-Italic *bre??is (“short, small”), from Proto-Indo-European *mré??us (“short, brief”), from *mre??- (“short”) + and from -?, from Proto-Italic *-?? or *-a??, from Proto-Indo-European *-eh?-yé-ti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abre?????t?r/
• Rhymes: -??tur
• Hyphenation: ab?bre?vi?a?tor

Noun

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.)

See also

• apostolisk protonotar (“protonotary apostolic”)
• kanselli (“chancery”)

English

Etymology

abbreviate +? -ory

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??b?i.vi.??t??.i/

Adjective

abbreviatory (comparative more abbreviatory, superlative most abbreviatory)

1. Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging. [Mid 19^th century.]

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