different between petition vs abbreviator

English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French peticiun, from stem of Latin petitio, petitionem (“a request, solicitation”), from petere (“to require, seek, go forward”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??t?.??n/

Noun

petition (plural petitions)

1. A formal, written request made to an official person or organized body, often containing many signatures.
2. A compilation of signatures built in order to exert moral authority in support of a specific cause.

3. (law) A formal written request for judicial action.
4. A prayer; a supplication; an entreaty.

   • A house of prayer and petition for thy people.

Translations

Verb

petition (third-person singular simple present petitions, present participle petitioning, simple past and past participle petitioned)

1. (transitive) To make a request to, commonly in written form.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Late Latin abbrevi?tor. Compare French abbréviateur.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??b?i?.vi?e?.t?/, /-??.t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??b?i.vi?e?.t??/

Noun

abbreviator (plural abbreviators)

1. Agent noun of abbreviate; one who abbreviates or shortens. [Early 16^th century.]
2. (historical, Roman Catholicism) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form. [Mid 16^th century.]

Translations

References

Latin

Verb

abbrevi?tor

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

References

• abbreviator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Late Latin abbrevi?tor, future passive imperative of abbrevi? (“I shorten, abbreviate, abridge”), from both ad- (“to”), from ad (“to, towards, up to”), from Proto-Italic *ad (“toward, to, on, up to, for”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?éd (“to, at”) + and from brevi? (“I shorten, abbreviate, abridge”), from both brevis (“short, small; brief, low”), from Proto-Italic *bre??is (“short, small”), from Proto-Indo-European *mré??us (“short, brief”), from *mre??- (“short”) + and from -?, from Proto-Italic *-?? or *-a??, from Proto-Indo-European *-eh?-yé-ti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abre?????t?r/
• Rhymes: -??tur
• Hyphenation: ab?bre?vi?a?tor

Noun

abbreviator m (definite singular abbreviatoren, indefinite plural abbreviatorer, definite plural abbreviatorene)

1. (historical, Roman Catholicism) abbreviator (one of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.)

See also

• apostolisk protonotar (“protonotary apostolic”)
• kanselli (“chancery”)