different between elect vs elector

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?l?ctus, past participle of ?lig? (“to pick out, choose, elect”), from ?- (“out”) + leg? (“to pick out, pick, gather, collect, etc.”); see legend.

Cognate to eclectic, which is via Ancient Greek rather than Latin, hence prefix ?? (ek), rather than e- (from ex).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?kt/, /i??l?kt/
• Hyphenation: elect
• Rhymes: -?kt

Noun

elect (plural elects or elect)

1. One chosen or set apart.
2. (theology) In Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation.

   • Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth.

   • Shall not God avenge his won elect?

Antonyms

• reprobate

Derived terms

• president-elect

Translations

Verb

elect (third-person singular simple present elects, present participle electing, simple past and past participle elected)

1. (transitive) To choose or make a decision (to do something)
2. (transitive) To choose (a candidate) in an election

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

elect (not comparable)

1. (postpositive) Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.

   He is the President elect.
2. Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
   • the elect angels

Translations

Further reading

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

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.