different between president vs presidial

English

Alternative forms

• President (honorifically)
• præsident (archaic)

Etymology

From Old French president, from Latin praesid?ns (“presiding over; president, leader”) (accusative: praesidentem). The Latin word is the substantivized present active participle of the verb praeside? (“preside over”). The verb is composed from prae (“before”) and sede? (“sit”). The original meaning of the verb is 'to sit before' in the sense of presiding at a meeting. A secondary meaning of the verb is 'to command, to govern'. So praesid?ns means 'the presiding one on a meeting' or 'governor, commander'.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??z?d?nt/
• Hyphenation: pre?si?dent

Noun

president (plural presidents, feminine presidentess)

1. The head of state of a republic.
   • 2007, Benjamin Camins, Hillary Is the Best Choice, Page 144

     […] to change the pattern of the last 220 years of only voting for a white male president, and elect a woman president […]

2. In presidential republics, the head of government and head of state.
3. Primary leader of a corporation. Not to be confused with CEO, which is a related but separate position that is sometimes held by a different person.
4. A person presiding over a meeting, chair, presiding officer, presider.
5. Obsolete form of precedent.

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Synonyms

• (American head of state): POTUS
• (head of a college or university): provost (UK)
• (head of various specific bodies): prepositus
• (informal, jocular): prexy, prez

Translations

Adjective

president (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Occupying the first rank or chief place; having the highest authority; presiding.

References

• president at OneLook Dictionary Search
• president in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Noun

president m (plural presidents)

1. president

Related terms

• presidència
• presidencial
• presidir

Further reading

• “president” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “president” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “president” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “president” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Noun

president m

1. Alternative spelling of prezident

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pre?si?dent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

president m (plural presidenten, diminutive presidentje n)

1. president

Derived terms

• vicepresident

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: presiden

Ladin

Alternative forms

• presidënt

Noun

president m (plural presidenc)

1. president

Middle French

Noun

president m (plural presidens)

1. president (leader of an organization)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin praesidens

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pre?si?dent

Noun

president m (definite singular presidenten, indefinite plural presidenter, definite plural presidentene)

1. a president

Derived terms

• presidentvalg

References

• “president” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin praesidens

Noun

president m (definite singular presidenten, indefinite plural presidentar, definite plural presidentane)

1. a president

References

• “president” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Noun

president m (plural presidents)

1. president

Spanish

Etymology

Catalan president. Doublet of presidente.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?esi?dent/, [p?e.si?ð??n?t?]

Noun

president m (plural presidents)

1. president of Catalonia

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

president c

1. a chairman, presiding member of an assembly, e.g. a court of law
2. a president, head of state in a republic

Declension

Related terms

References

• president in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

English

Alternative forms

• præsidial (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French presidial, from Latin praesidialis, variant of praesidalis, from praeses (“provincial governor”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p???s?d?.?l/

Adjective

presidial (comparative more presidial, superlative most presidial)

1. Belonging to a province, or being like a province; provincial.
2. Pertaining to a president or one who presides; presidential.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 22:

     the doorway was vacant save for a large brindled cur that stood upon the threshold, wagging his tail and watching the scene with a suave, indulgent, presidial gaze, as if he were the patron of the ball.

3. Having or relating to a garrison.
   • 1 October 1621, James Howell, "To Sir T. H. Knight" in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ

     There are three presidial castles in this city.

Synonyms

• (having or relating to a garrison): presidiary

Middle French

Etymology

First known attestation 1435, borrowed from Latin praesidialis.

Adjective

presidial m (feminine singular presidiale, masculine plural presidiaulx, feminine plural presidiales)

1. of or relating to a court having the ability to make a judgment of up to 250 pounds without the possibility of appeal

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (presidial, supplement)