negotiator

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin negōtiātor (“merchant, banker”), equivalent to negotiate +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /nɪˈɡoʊ.ʃi.eɪ.tɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /nɪˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪ.tə/, /nəˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪ.tə/, /nɪˈɡəʊ.si.eɪ.tə/

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Noun

negotiator (plural negotiators)

1. One who negotiates.
2. A diplomat, moderator.

Derived terms

• hostage negotiator

Translations

one who negotiates

• Belarusian: перамо́ўнік m (pjeramóŭnik), перамо́ўніца f (pjeramóŭnica), перамо́ўшчык m (pjeramóŭščyk), перамо́ўшчыца f (pjeramóŭščyca)
• Bulgarian: прегова́рящ (bg) m (pregovárjašt)
• Finnish: sovittelija (fi)
• French: (to end up with a bad situation, to free hostages) négociateur (fr) m, négociatrice (fr) f, (to buy goods with a better price) négociant (fr) m
• Galician: negociador (gl) m, negociadora f
• German: Unterhändler (de) m, Unterhändlerin (de) f, Verhandlungsführer m, Verhandlungsführerin f
• Indonesian: negosiator (id)
• Italian: negoziatore (it) m, negoziatrice (it) f
• Latin: interpres m or f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forhandler m

• Portuguese: negociador (pt) m, negociadora f
• Russian: перегово́рщик (ru) m (peregovórščik), перегово́рщица (ru) f (peregovórščica), парламентёр (ru) m (parlamentjór)
• Spanish: negociador (es) m, negociadora (es) f
• Ukrainian: перемо́вник m (peremóvnyk), перемо́вниця f (peremóvnycja), перегово́рник m (perehovórnyk), перегово́рниця f (perehovórnycja), парламенте́р m (parlamentér)

a diplomat, moderator

• Finnish: sovittelija (fi)
• French: négociateur (fr) m, négociatrice (fr) f, diplomate (fr) m or f
• German: Vermittler (de) m, Vermittlerin (de) f
• Russian: посре́дник (ru) m (posrédnik), посре́дница (ru) f (posrédnica)
• Ukrainian: посере́дник m (poserédnyk), посере́дниця f (poserédnycja)

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Translations to be checked

• Czech: vyjednavač (cs) m, vyjednávač m
• Telugu: బేరగాడు (te) (bēragāḍu)

Latin

Etymology

From negōtior (“do business”) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ne.ɡoː.tiˈaː.tor/, [nɛɡoːt̪iˈäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ne.ɡot.t͡siˈa.tor/, [neɡot̪ː͡s̪iˈäːt̪or]

Noun

negōtiātor m (genitive negōtiātōris); third declension

1. merchant, businessman, dealer, trader, wholesaler
2. banker

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	negōtiātor	negōtiātōrēs
genitive	negōtiātōris	negōtiātōrum
dative	negōtiātōrī	negōtiātōribus
accusative	negōtiātōrem	negōtiātōrēs
ablative	negōtiātōre	negōtiātōribus
vocative	negōtiātor	negōtiātōrēs

Derived terms

• negōtiātorius

Related terms

• negōtiālis
• negōtiāns
• negōtiātiō
• negōtiolum
• negōtior
• negōtiōsus
• negōtium

Descendants

• Catalan: negociador
• English: negotiator
• French: négociateur
  • → Romanian: negociator
• Galician: negociador
• Italian: negoziatore
• Portuguese: negociador
• Old Romanian: neguțător
  • Romanian: negustor
• Spanish: negociador

References

• “negotiator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “negotiator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• negotiator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • business-men: negotiatores (Verr. 2. 69. 168)