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English

Alternative forms

• administre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English admynistren, from Old French aminister, from Latin administrare (“to manage, execute”), from ad (“to”) + ministrare (“to attend, serve”), from minister (“servant”); see minister.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?m?n?st?/

Verb

administer (third-person singular simple present administers, present participle administering, simple past and past participle administered)

1. (transitive) To cause to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit.
2. (transitive) To apportion out, distribute.
   • A fountain […] administers to the pleasure as well as the plenty of the place.
3. (transitive) To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.
4. (intransitive) To minister (to).

5. (law) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
6. To give, as an oath.
7. (medicine) To give a drug to a patient, be it orally or by any other means.

Related terms

• administration
• administrative
• administrator

Translations

Further reading

• administer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• administer in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• administre, mistrained, nitramides

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ad.mi?nis.ter/, [äd?m??n?s?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ad.mi?nis.ter/, [?d?mi?nist??r]

Noun

administer m (genitive administr?); second declension

1. assistant, helper, supporter
2. attendant
3. priest, minister

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

References

• administer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• administer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• administer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

See Wiktionary:Administrators for administrators within Wiktionary.

English

Alternative forms

• administratour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin administr?tor (literally “he that is near to attend”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?m?n?st?e?t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?m?n?st?e?t?/

Noun

administrator (plural administrators)

1. One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager
2. (law) A person who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority
3. (computing) One who is responsible for software installation, management, information and maintenance of a computer or network

Synonyms

• (one who administers affairs): chief, head, head man, controller, comptroller, foreman, organizer, overseer, superintendent, supervisor
• admin

Derived terms

• co-administrator

Related terms

• administer
• administration
• administrative

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin administr?tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t.mi.ni?stra?.t?r/, /??t.mi.n?s?tra?.t?r/
• Hyphenation: ad?mi?nis?tra?tor
• Rhymes: -a?t?r

Noun

administrator m (plural administratoren)

1. administrator, manager (person in an administrative capacity)
2. (Roman Catholicism) ecclesiastical administrator, a steward of a bishop

Related terms

• administrateur
• administratie
• administratief
• administreren

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch administrator (“administrator”), from Latin administrator (“administrator”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /at?min?strat?r/
• Hyphenation: ad?mi?nis?tra?tor

Noun

administrator (first-person possessive administratorku, second-person possessive administratormu, third-person possessive administratornya)

1. (government, management) administrator.

Alternative forms

• administratur (nonstandard)

Related terms

Further reading

• “administrator” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

From administr? (“attend upon, assist”), from ad- (“to”) +? ministr? (“attend, manage”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ad.mi.nis?tra?.tor/, [äd?m?n?s??t??ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ad.mi.nis?tra.tor/, [?d?minis?t????t??r]

Noun

administr?tor m (genitive administr?t?ris); third declension

1. manager, conductor, administrator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• administr?t?rius

Related terms

• administer
• administr?ti?
• administr?t?vus
• administr?

Descendants

• Catalan: administrador
• English: administrator
• Hungarian: adminisztrátor
• Portuguese: administrador
• Russian: ?????????????? m (administrátor)
• Spanish: administrador

References

• administrator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• administrator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• administrator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Latvian

Noun

administrator m

1. vocative singular form of administrators

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

administrator m (definite singular administratoren, indefinite plural administratorer, definite plural administratorene)

1. an administrator

References

• “administrator” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

administrator m (definite singular administratoren, indefinite plural administratorar, definite plural administratorane)

1. an administrator

References

• “administrator” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin administr?tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ad.m?i.?i?stra.t?r/

Noun

administrator m pers (feminine administratorka)

1. administrator

Declension

Further reading

• administrator in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French administrateur, Latin administr?tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ad.mi.nis.tra?tor/

Noun

administrator m (plural administratori, feminine equivalent administratoare)

1. administrator

Declension

Synonyms

• intendent

Derived terms

• administrator delegat

Related terms

• administra
• administrabil
• administrare
• administrat
• administrativ
• administra?ie

References

• administrator in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /admin?stra?tor/
• Hyphenation: ad?mi?ni?stra?tor

Noun

adminìstr?tor m (Cyrillic spelling ??????????????)

1. administrator

Declension