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elector
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)
- (politics) A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.
- (Britain, Commonwealth of Nations) A person eligible to vote to elect a Member of Parliament.
- 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.
- (historical) Alternative letter-case form of Elector (“a German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire”).
- (Britain, Commonwealth of Nations) A person eligible to vote to elect a Member of Parliament.
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)
- 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
- chooser, selector
- 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)
- voter, elector
- Synonym: votante
Derived terms
- electorado
- electoral
Further reading
- “elector” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
elector From the web:
- what electoral college
- what electoral votes
- what electoral district am i in
- what electoral college mean
- what electoral votes have been certified
- what electoral votes are left
- what electoral votes are still out
- what electors do
election
English
Etymology
From Middle English eleccioun, eleccion, from Anglo-Norman eleccioun, from Latin ?lecti?n-, stem of ?lecti? (“choice, selection”), from ?lig? (“I pluck out, I choose”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?-l?k'sh?n, IPA(key): /??l?k?(?)n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??l?k?(?)n/
- Rhymes: -?k??n
- Hyphenation: elect?ion
Noun
election (countable and uncountable, plural elections)
- A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote.
- The parliamentary election(s) will be held in March.
- How did you vote in (UK also: at) the last election?
- The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.
- The election of John Smith was due to his broad appeal.
- An option that is selected.
- (archaic) Any conscious choice.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Followers and Friends
- To use men with much difference and election is good.
- 1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on The Pilgrim's Progress
- The predestinative force of a free agent's own will in certain absolute acts, determinations, or elections, and in respect of which acts it is one either with the divine or the devilish will; and if the former, the conclusions to be drawn from God's goodness, faithfulness, and spiritual presence; these supply grounds of argument of a very different character […]
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Followers and Friends
- (theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.
- (obsolete) Those who are elected.
- The election hath obtained it.
Synonyms
- (theology): chosenness
Hyponyms
- direct election
- general election
- indirect election
- primary election
- snap election
Derived terms
- by-election
- electioneer
- electioneering
- pre-election, preelection
Related terms
Translations
See also
- psephology
See also
- Election on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Predestination on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Middle French
Noun
election f (plural elections)
- choice; selection (person, object that is selected)
- election (act or process of being elected to an office)
election From the web:
- what election is coming up
- what election is today
- what election district am i in
- what election is in november
- what elections are taking place in 2020
- what election is the presidential election
- what election is in 2022
- what election is every 2 years
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