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administrator

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

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postmaster

English

Etymology

post +? master

Noun

postmaster (plural postmasters)

  1. The head of a post office.
  2. (Internet) The administrator of an electronic mail system.
  3. (Britain) A kind of scholar at Merton College, Oxford; portionist.
  4. (archaic) One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travellers; one who supplies post horses.

Coordinate terms

  • postmistress

Derived terms

  • subpostmaster

Translations

Anagrams

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