different between citizen vs elector

English

Alternative forms

• cytesin (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English citeseyn, citezein, borrowed from Anglo-Norman citesain (“burgher; city-dweller”), citezein &c., probably a variant of cithein under influence of deinzein (“denizen”), from Anglo-Norman and Old French citeain &c. and citaien, citeien &c. ("burgher"; modern French citoyen), from cité ("settlement; cathedral city, city"; modern French cité) + -ain or -ien (“-an, -ian”). See city and hewe.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?t?z?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?t?z?n/, /?s?t?s?n/

Noun

citizen (plural citizens)

1. A resident of a city or town, especially one with legally-recognized rights or duties. [from 14th c.]

   Synonyms: burgess, burgher, cityite, freeman

   Hyponyms: citess, (female) citizeness
2. A legally-recognized member of a state, with associated rights and obligations; a person considered in terms of this role. [from 14th c.]
   • 1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 4:

     Assistant: You'll meet with the managing director and Dr Sinita Brahmachari, the engineer who designed the chair.
     Peter Mackenzie: Indian, is he?
     Assistant: She is a British citizen, Minister. Born in Coventry.

   I am a Roman citizen.

   Synonyms: countryman, national

   Antonyms: alien, illegal alien, foreigner, (colloquial) illegal

   Hyponyms: first-class citizen, second-class citizen, third-class citizen, native, naturalized citizen, senior citizen

3. An inhabitant or occupant: a member of any place. [from 14th c.]
   • 1979 October, Boys' Life, p. 33:

     A jellyfish... carries poison cells that can sting other citizens of the sea.

   Synonyms: denizen, local, inhabitant, native, occupant, resident

   Antonyms: alien, outsider, stranger

4. (Christianity) A resident of the heavenly city or (later) of the kingdom of God: a Christian; a good Christian. [from 15th c.]
5. A civilian, as opposed to a police officer, soldier, or member of some other specialized (usually state) group. [from 16th c.]
6. (obsolete) An ordinary person, as opposed to nobles and landed gentry on one side and peasants, craftsmen, and laborers on the other. [17th–19th c.]
   • 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, III.v.6:

     [W]ould Mr. Delvile, who hardly ever spoke but to the high-born, without seeming to think his dignity somewhat injured, deign to receive for a daughter in law the child of a citizen and tradesman?

7. (now historical, usually capitalized) A term of address among French citizens during the French Revolution or towards its supporters elsewhere; (later, dated) a term of address among socialists and communists. [from 18th c.]

   Synonym: (term of address among communists) comrade

8. (computing) An object.

   Hyponyms: first-class citizen, second-class citizen, third-class citizen

Synonyms

• burgess
• burgher
• denizen
• townsman, townswoman

Antonyms

• (resident of a city): countryfolk, country gentleman, countryman, peasant, villager

Hyponyms

• (person who is legally recognized as a member or resident): first-class citizen, second-class citizen, third-class citizen

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "citizen, n. and adj." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2014.

Anagrams

• zincite

English

Etymology

From Middle English electour (“one with a right to vote in electing some office, elector”), borrowed from Late Latin ?l?ctor (“chooser, selector; voter, elector”), from Latin ?ligere (“to elect”) + -tor (suffix forming masculine agent nouns). ?ligere is the present active infinitive of ?lig? (“to extract, pluck or root out; (figurative) to choose, elect, pick out”), from ?- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + leg? (“to appoint, choose, select”) (from Proto-Italic *leg? (“to gather, collect”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *le?- (“to collect, gather”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??l?kt?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??l?kt?/
• Rhymes: -?kt?(?)
• Hyphenation: elect?or

Noun

elector (plural electors)

1. (politics) A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.
   1. (Britain, Commonwealth of Nations) A person eligible to vote to elect a Member of Parliament.
   2. A member of an electoral college; specifically (US) an official selected by a state as a member of the Electoral College to elect the president and vice president of the United States.
   3. (historical) Alternative letter-case form of Elector (“a German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire”).

Alternative forms

• electour (obsolete)

Derived terms

Related terms

• elect
• election

Translations

References

Further reading

• prince-elector on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• elector (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• voting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• corelet, electro, electro-

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin elector.

Noun

elector m (plural electors, feminine electora)

1. voter, elector

Derived terms

• electoral
• electorat

Further reading

• “elector” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “elector” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “elector” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “elector” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Etymology

From ?lig? (“to choose, pick out”) +? -tor (agentive suffix) from ex- (“out”) +? leg? (“to gather, collect”) from Proto-Italic *leg?, from Proto-Indo-European *le?-. Compare Ancient Greek ?????? (eklég?).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e??le?k.tor/, [e????e?kt??r]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /e?le?k.tor/, [e?le?ktor]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e?lek.tor/, [??l?kt??r]

Noun

?l?ctor m (genitive ?l?ct?ris, feminine ?l?ctr?x); third declension

1. chooser, selector
2. voter, elector

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

References

• elector in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• elector in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 580
• elector in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, page 2378

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin ?l?ctor (“chooser, selector”) (genitive singular ?l?ct?ris), from Latin ?lig? (“to choose, pick out”), ex- +? leg? from Proto-Italic *leg? (“to gather, collect”), from Proto-Indo-European *le?-.

Noun

elector m (plural electores, feminine electora, feminine plural electoras)

1. voter, elector

   Synonym: votante

Derived terms

• electorado
• electoral

Further reading

• “elector” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.