administrator

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English

Alternative forms

• administratour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin administrātor (literally “he that is near to attend”). Doublet of administrador.

Pronunciation

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

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

Synonyms

• (one who administers affairs): chief, head, head man, controller, comptroller, foreman, organizer, overseer, superintendent, supervisor
• admin

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Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin administrātor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑt.mi.niˈstraː.tɔr/, /ˌɑt.mi.nɪsˈtraː.tɔr/
• 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

• beheerder

Derived terms

• apostolisch administrator

Related terms

• administrateur
• administratie
• administratief
• administreren

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

administrator

1. (government, management) administrator.

Alternative forms

• administratur (nonstandard)

Related terms

Further reading

• “administrator” 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

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

administrātor m (genitive administrātōris); third declension

1. manager, conductor, administrator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• administrātōrius

Related terms

• administer
• administrātiō
• administrātīvus
• administrō

Descendants

• Catalan: administrador
• English: administrator
• French: administrateur
• Hungarian: adminisztrátor
• Italian: amministratore
• Portuguese: administrador
• Romanian: administrator
• Russian: администра́тор m (administrátor)
• Spanish: administrador

References

• “administrator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “administrator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• administrator 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)

Latvian

Noun

administrator m

1. vocative singular of administrators

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

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

1. an administrator

References

• “administrator” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

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

1. an administrator

References

• “administrator” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -atɔr
• Syllabification: ad‧mi‧nis‧tra‧tor

Noun

administrator m pers (female equivalent administratorka)

1. (government, management, technology) administrator

   Synonym: zarządca

2. (Middle Polish) executioner

   Synonym: kat

Declension

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Collocations

References

Further reading

• administrator in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• administrator in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Danuta Lankiewicz (26.01.2015) “ADMINISTRATOR”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “administrator”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “administrator”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “administrator”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 8
• administrator in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin administrātor. Equivalent to administra +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ad.mi.nis.traˈtor/

Noun

administrator m (plural administratori, feminine equivalent administratoare)

1. administrator

   Synonym: intendent

Declension

Derived terms

• administrator delegat

Related terms

• administra
• administrabil
• administrare
• administrat
• administrativ
• administrație

References

• administrator in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

adminìstrātor m (Cyrillic spelling админѝстра̄тор)

1. administrator

Declension