different between obligatory vs mandator

English

Etymology

From Middle English obligatorie, from Latin obligat?rius.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??bl???t??i/, /??bl???t??i/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /??bl???t(?)?i/

Adjective

obligatory (comparative more obligatory, superlative most obligatory)

1. Imposing obligation, legally, morally, or otherwise; binding; mandatory.
   • 1673, Richard Baxter, Christian Directory

     […] if he speak the words of an oath in a strange language, thinking they signify something else, or if he spake in his sleep, or deliration, or distraction, it is no oath, and so not obligatory.
2. Requiring a matter or obligation.

Synonyms

• bounden
• mandatory

Antonyms

• optional

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• obligatory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Middle English

Adjective

obligatory

1. Alternative form of obligatorie

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