administrator

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin administrātor (literally he that is near to attend).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ədˈmɪnɪstɹeɪtə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ədˈmɪnɪstɹeɪtɚ/
  • (file)

Noun

administrator (plural administrators)

  1. One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager
  2. (law) A person who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority
  3. (computing) One who is responsible for software installation, management, information and maintenance of a computer or network

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin administrātor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌɑt.mi.niˈstraː.tɔr/, /ˌɑt.mi.nɪsˈtraː.tɔr/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: ad‧mi‧nis‧tra‧tor
  • Rhymes: -aːtɔr

Noun

administrator m (plural administratoren)

  1. administrator, manager (person in an administrative capacity)
  2. (Roman Catholicism) ecclesiastical administrator, a steward of a bishop

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • apostolisch administrator

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch administrator (administrator), from Latin administrator (administrator).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /at̚minɪstratɔr/
  • Hyphenation: ad‧mi‧nis‧tra‧tor

Noun

administrator (first-person possessive administratorku, second-person possessive administratormu, third-person possessive administratornya)

  1. (government, management) administrator.

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Further reading

Latin

Etymology

From administrō (attend upon, assist), from ad- (to) + ministrō (attend, manage).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ad.mi.nisˈtraː.tor/, [äd̪mɪnɪs̠ˈt̪räːt̪ɔr]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ad.mi.nisˈtra.tor/, [äd̪minisˈt̪räːt̪or]

Noun

administrātor m (genitive administrātōris); third declension

  1. manager, conductor, administrator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative administrātor administrātōrēs
Genitive administrātōris administrātōrum
Dative administrātōrī administrātōribus
Accusative administrātōrem administrātōrēs
Ablative administrātōre administrātōribus
Vocative administrātor administrātōrēs

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Descendants

References

Latvian

Noun

administrator m

  1. vocative singular form of administrators

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

administrator m (definite singular administratoren, indefinite plural administratorer, definite plural administratorene)

  1. an administrator

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

administrator m (definite singular administratoren, indefinite plural administratorar, definite plural administratorane)

  1. an administrator

References

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin administrātor.[1] By surface analysis, administrować + -ator. First attested in 1560.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ad.mi.ɲisˈtra.tɔr/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -atɔr
  • Syllabification: ad‧mi‧nis‧tra‧tor

Noun

administrator m pers (feminine administratorka)

  1. (government, management, technology) administrator
    Synonym: zarządca
  2. (Middle Polish) executioner
    Synonym: kat

Declension

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nouns
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Collocations

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), administrator is one of the top 10,355 most used words in Polish, appearing 1 time in scientific texts, 0 times in news, 1 time in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 4 times in plays, totaling 9 times, making it the 5148th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References

  1. Mirosław Bańko; Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  2. administrator”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish], 2010-2022
  3. Ida Kurcz (1990), administrator”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 2
  • Pęzik, Piotr; Przepiórkowski, A.; Bańko, M.; Górski, R.; Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B (2012) Wyszukiwarka PELCRA dla danych NKJP. Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego [National Polish Language Corpus, PELCRA search engine], Wydawnictwo PWN

Further reading

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin administrātor. Equivalent to administra + -tor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ad.mi.nis.traˈtor/

Noun

administrator m (plural administratori, feminine equivalent administratoare)

  1. administrator

Declension

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • administrator delegat

References

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /adminǐstraːtor/
  • Hyphenation: ad‧mi‧ni‧stra‧tor

Noun

adminìstrātor m (Cyrillic spelling админѝстра̄тор)

  1. administrator

Declension

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