disseminator

English

Etymology

From disseminate +‎ -or.

Noun

disseminator (plural disseminators)

1. One who, or that which, disseminates.
   • 1984 April 21, Maida Tilchen, “New Song, New Feminism, New Gay Awareness”, in Gay Community News, page 16:

     I think that the New Song movement may hold the key in the cultural merging of many cultures and peoples, for it expands the role of the artists into a disseminator of artistic culture, instead of the self-absorbed, individualistic style that characterizes North American songwriters.

Related terms

• dissemination

Translations

person who disseminates

• Czech: šiřitel m, šiřitelka f
• Finnish: levittäjä (fi)
• French: propagateur (fr) m
• German: Verbreiter m, Verstreuer m, Säer (de) m (rare)
• Italian: disseminatore m
• Russian: распространи́тель (ru) m (rasprostranítelʹ)

Anagrams

• nitrosamides

Latin

Verb

dissēminātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of dissēminō

References

• “disseminator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• disseminator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• disseminator in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016