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English

Alternative forms

• moderatour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin moder?tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?d???e?t?(?)/

Noun

moderator (plural moderators)

1. someone who moderates

   • Angling was […] a moderator of passions.

   1. an arbitrator or mediator
   2. the chair or president of a meeting etc.
   3. (Internet) A person who enforces the rules of a discussion forum by deleting posts, banning users, etc.

      Synonym: mod

2. the person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian Church
3. (physics) a substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission
4. a device used to deaden some of the noise from a firearm, although not to the same extent as a suppressor or silencer.
5. (Britain) An examiner at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
6. (Ireland) At the University of Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
7. (Britain) someone who supervises and monitors the setting and marking of examinations by different people to ensure consistency of standards.
8. A mechanical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.
9. (historical) A kind of lamp in which the flow of the oil to the wick is regulated.

Translations

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch moderator, from Latin moder?tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mod??rat?r]
• Hyphenation: mo?dê?ra?tor

Noun

moderator (first-person possessive moderatorku, second-person possessive moderatormu, third-person possessive moderatornya)

1. moderator:
   1. someone who moderates: an arbitrator or mediator;
   2. someone who moderates: the chair or president of a meeting.

      Synonym: pemandu

   3. (engineering) a substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission

Derived terms

Further reading

• “moderator” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /mo.de?ra?.tor/, [m?d????ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mo.de?ra.tor/, [m?d??????t??r]

Noun

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

1. manager, ruler, governor, director
2. moderator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Verb

moder?tor

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

Descendants

• English: moderator
• French: modérateur
• Italian: moderatore
• Portuguese: moderador
• Spanish: moderador

References

• moderator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• moderator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• moderator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• moderator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

From French modérateur, from Latin moderatore.

Noun

moderator n (plural moderatori)

1. moderator

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

moderator m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. moderator

English

Etymology

super- +? moderator

Noun

supermoderator (plural supermoderators)

1. (Internet) A moderator who has permission to moderate every forum on a web site.

Alternative forms

• super moderator

Translations