legislator

English

Alternative forms

• legislatour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

From Latin lēgislātor.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

legislator (plural legislators)

1. Someone who creates or enacts laws.
   1. especially a member of a legislative body.
      • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Interview”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 249:

        Give the children of the poor that portion of education which will enable them to know their own resources; which will cultivate in them an onward-looking hope, and give them rational amusement in their leisure hours: this, and this only, will work out that moral revolution, which is the legislator's noblest purpose.

      Synonym: lawmaker

   2. especially not any individual member of a legislative body but the abstracted author of a statute or statutes relevant for the principles of interpretation.

      Synonym: lawmaker

Translations

who creates or enacts laws

• Albanian: ligjvënës (sq) m
• Arabic: مُشَرِّع m (mušarriʕ), مُشَرِّعَة f (mušarriʕa), شارِع (ar) (šāriʕ)
• Armenian: օրենսդիր (hy) (ōrensdir)
• Azerbaijani: qanunverən, qanunverici
• Belarusian: заканада́ўца m or f (zakanadáŭca), заканада́вец m (zakanadávjec)
• Bulgarian: законода́тел m (zakonodátel), законода́телка f (zakonodátelka)
• Catalan: legislador m, legisladora f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 立法者 (lap⁶ faat³ ze²)

  Mandarin: 立法者 (lìfǎzhě)

• Czech: zákonodárce m, zákonodárkyně (cs) f
• Danish: lovgiver c, lovgiverinde c (female), lovgiverske c (female)
• Dutch: wetgever (nl) m, wetgeefster f
• Esperanto: parlamentano, parlamentanino (female)
• Estonian: seadusandja
• Finnish: lainsäätäjä (fi)
• French: législateur (fr) m, législatrice (fr) f
• Georgian: კანონმდებელი (ḳanonmdebeli)
• German: Gesetzgeber (de) m, Gesetzgeberin f (strictly in the sense of the abstracted author of a statute), Gesetzesmacher m, Gesetzesmacherin f (strictly in the sense of an individual or organizational unit bringing forward laws)
• Greek: νομοθέτης (el) m (nomothétis), νομοθέτις f (nomothétis)

  Ancient: νομοθέτης m (nomothétēs)

• Hindi: विधायक (hi) m (vidhāyak), व्यवस्थापक (hi) m (vyavasthāpak)
• Hungarian: törvényhozó (hu)
• Indonesian: legislator (id)
• Irish: reachtóir m
• Italian: legislatore (it) m, legislatrice (it) f
• Japanese: 立法者 (りっぽうしゃ, rippōsha)
• Kazakh: заң шығарушы (zañ şyğaruşy)
• Khmer: នីតិបុគ្គល (km) (niiteʼ bokkŭəl)
• Korean: 입법자 (ipbeopja), 립법자 (ripbeopja) (North Korea)
• Lao: ນິຕິບຸກຄົນ (ni ti buk khon)
• Latin: lēgislātor m
• Latvian: likumdevējs m, likumdevēja f
• Lithuanian: leidėjas m
• Macedonian: законодавец m (zakonodavec)
• Maori: kaihanga ture, kaiwhakature, kaiwhakaarature
• Norman: législateu m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lovgiver m

  Nynorsk: lovgivar m, lovgjevar m

• Old English: ǣlǣdend m
• Ottoman Turkish: قانونجی (kanuncu)
• Persian: قانون‌گذار (qânun-gozâr)
• Plautdietsch: Jesazjäwa m
• Polish: ustawodawca (pl) m, ustawodawczyni f, prawodawca (pl) m, prawodawczyni f, legislator (pl) m
• Portuguese: legislador (pt) m, legisladora f
• Romanian: legiuitor (ro) m, legiuitoare (ro) f, legislator (ro) m, legislatoare f
• Russian: законода́тель (ru) m (zakonodátelʹ), законода́тельница (ru) f (zakonodátelʹnica)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: законода́вац m, законо̀да̄вка f

  Roman: zakonodávac (sh) m, zakonòdāvka (sh) f

• Slovak: zákonodarca m, zákonodarkyňa f
• Slovene: zakonodajalec m, zakonodajalka f
• Spanish: legislador (es) m, legisladora (es) f
• Swedish: lagstiftare (sv) c, lagstifterska c (female)
• Tagalog: mambabatas, lehislador (male), lehisladora (female)
• Tajik: қонунгузор (qonunguzor)
• Thai: ผู้บัญญัติกฎหมาย (pûu-ban-yàt-gòt-mǎai)
• Turkish: yasa koyucu (tr)
• Ukrainian: законода́вець m (zakonodávecʹ), законода́виця f (zakonodávycja)
• Urdu: قانون ساز m (qānūn sāz)
• Uzbek: qonun chikaruvchi
• Vietnamese: người làm luật, người lập pháp
• Welsh: deddfwr m

Anagrams

• allegorist

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lēgislātor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [lɛɡɪsˈlatɔr]
• Hyphenation: lè‧gis‧la‧tor

Noun

lègislator (first-person possessive legislatorku, second-person possessive legislatormu, third-person possessive legislatornya)

1. legislator

Related terms

• legislasi
• legislatif

 

Further reading

• “legislator” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

In Classical Latin, the word is usually written separately: lēgis lātor

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /leː.ɡisˈlaː.tor/, [ɫ̪eːɡɪs̠ˈɫ̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /le.d͡ʒisˈla.tor/, [led͡ʒizˈläːt̪or]

Noun

lēgislātor m (genitive lēgislātōris); third declension

1. legislator
   • c. 130-180 C.E., Gaius, Institutiones, 3.76

     nec me praeterit non satis in ea re legislatorem voluntatem suam verbis expressisse

     It has not escaped my observation, however, that the legislator did not express his intention in this manner in a way which is sufficiently clear.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	lēgislātor	lēgislātōrēs
genitive	lēgislātōris	lēgislātōrum
dative	lēgislātōrī	lēgislātōribus
accusative	lēgislātōrem	lēgislātōrēs
ablative	lēgislātōre	lēgislātōribus
vocative	lēgislātor	lēgislātōrēs

Descendants

• Catalan: legislador
• English: legislator
• French: législateur
• Italian: legislatore
• Norman: législateur
• → Polish: legislator
• Portuguese: legislador
• Romanian: legislator
• Spanish: legislador

References

• “legislator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• legislator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lēgislātor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛ.ɡiˈsla.tɔr/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -atɔr
• Syllabification: le‧gi‧sla‧tor

Noun

legislator m pers

1. (law) legal expert
2. (government, law) legislator (person who creates or enacts laws)

   Synonyms: prawodawca, ustawodawca

Declension

Declension of legislator

	singular	plural
nominative	legislator	legislatorzy/legislatory (deprecative)
genitive	legislatora	legislatorów
dative	legislatorowi	legislatorom
accusative	legislatora	legislatorów
instrumental	legislatorem	legislatorami
locative	legislatorze	legislatorach
vocative	legislatorze	legislatorzy

Related terms

adjectives

• legislacyjny
• legislatywny

 

nouns

• legislacja
• legislatura
• legislatywa

 

Further reading

• legislator in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• legislator in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French législateur. By surface analysis, legisla +‎ -tor.

Noun

legislator m (plural legislatori)

1. legislator

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	legislator	legislatorul		legislatori	legislatorii
genitive-dative	legislator	legislatorului		legislatori	legislatorilor
vocative	legislatorule			legislatorilor