different between mandator vs mandatory

English

Noun

mandator (plural mandators)

1. A director; one who gives a mandate or order.
2. (law) The person who employs another to perform a mandate.

Anagrams

• at random

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /man?da?.tor/, [män??d?ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /man?da.tor/, [m?n??d???t??r]

Etymology 1

From mand? +? -tor.

Noun

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

1. mandator, commander, director

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Etymology 2

Verb

mand?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of mand?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of mand?

References

• mandator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mandator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• mandator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From Late Latin mandatorius (“of or belonging to a mandator”), from mandator (“one who commands”); see mandate.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mæn.d?.t(?)?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mæn.d??t?.?i/

Adjective

mandatory (comparative more mandatory, superlative most mandatory)

1. Obligatory; required or commanded by authority.

   Attendance at a school is usually mandatory for children.

   • 1999, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind, page 276

     This kind of immediate control structure we take to be characteristic of the tribe, and it leads to a rather rigid type of system in which 'every action not mandatory is forbidden'.

   • 2011, Dirk Bünger, Deficits in EU and US Mandatory Environmental Information Disclosure: Legal, Comparative Legal and Economic Facets of Pollutant Release Inventories, Springer Science & Business Media ?ISBN, page 57

     It also discusses the access to legal instruments for enforcement with regard to mandatory disclosure of environmental information.

2. Of, being or relating to a mandate.

   Mandatory Palestine

Synonyms

• (required or commanded by authority): compulsory, obligatory; See also Thesaurus:compulsory
• (relating to a mandate):

Antonyms

• (required or commanded by authority): optional, elective; See also Thesaurus:optional
• (relating to a mandate):

Derived terms

• mandatoriness
• mandatorily

Translations

Noun

mandatory (plural mandatories)

1. (disc golf) A sign or line that require the path of the disc to be above, below or to one side of it.

   Synonym: (colloquial) mando

2. (dated, rare) A person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.

Further reading

• mandatory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• mandatory in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
• The Oxford English Dictionary

Anagrams

• damnatory