dispensator

English

Etymology

From Latin dispēnsātor.

Noun

dispensator (plural dispensators)

1. A distributor; a person who dispenses.

   Coordinate term: dispensatrix

   • c. 1598, Francis Bacon, An Account of […] Compositions for Alienations:

     dispensators of this her royal favour towards her people

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dispensator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• panstroside

Latin

Etymology

From dispēnsō +‎ -tor.

Noun

dispēnsātor m (genitive dispēnsātōris, feminine dispēnsātrīx); third declension

1. steward, attendant
2. treasurer
3. dispenser

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dispēnsātor	dispēnsātōrēs
genitive	dispēnsātōris	dispēnsātōrum
dative	dispēnsātōrī	dispēnsātōribus
accusative	dispēnsātōrem	dispēnsātōrēs
ablative	dispēnsātōre	dispēnsātōribus
vocative	dispēnsātor	dispēnsātōrēs

Descendants

• Catalan: dispensador
• French: dispensateur
• Galician: dispensador
• Italian: dispensatore
• Portuguese: dispensador
• Romanian: dispensator
• Spanish: dispensador

References

• “dispensator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dispensator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dispensator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• dispensator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “dispensator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dispensator”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French dispensateur or Latin dispensator. By surface analysis, dispensa +‎ -tor.

Adjective

dispensator m or n (feminine singular dispensatoare, masculine plural dispensatori, feminine and neuter plural dispensatoare)

1. dispenser

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	dispensator		dispensatoare		dispensatori	dispensatoare
	definite	dispensatorul		dispensatoarea		dispensatorii	dispensatoarele
genitive- dative	indefinite	dispensator		dispensatoare		dispensatori	dispensatoare
	definite	dispensatorului		dispensatoarei		dispensatorilor	dispensatoarelor