moderator

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English

Alternative forms

• moderatour (obsolete)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin moderātor. First attested as Middle English moderatour.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɒdəˌɹeɪtə(ɹ)/

Noun

moderator (plural moderators)

1. Someone who moderates.
   1. An arbitrator or mediator.
   2. The chair or president of a meeting, etc.
   3. (Internet) A person who enforces the rules of a discussion forum by deleting posts, banning users, etc.

      Synonym: mod

2. The person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian church.
3. (nuclear physics) A substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission.
4. A device used to deaden some of the noise from a firearm, although not to the same extent as a suppressor or silencer.
5. (UK) An examiner at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
6. (Ireland) At the University of Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
7. (UK) Someone who supervises and monitors the setting and marking of examinations by different people to ensure consistency of standards.
8. A mechanical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.
9. (historical) A kind of lamp in which the flow of the oil to the wick is regulated.

Derived terms

Translations

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch moderator, from Latin moderātor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [modəˈratɔr]
• Hyphenation: mo‧dê‧ra‧tor

Noun

moderator (plural moderator-moderator)

1. moderator:
   1. someone who moderates: an arbitrator or mediator;
   2. someone who moderates: the chair or president of a meeting

      Synonym: pemandu

   3. (engineering) a substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission

Derived terms

Further reading

• “moderator” 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 moderor +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɔ.dɛˈraː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [mo.d̪eˈraː.t̪or]

Noun

moderātor m (genitive moderātōris, feminine moderātrīx); third declension

1. manager, ruler, governor, director
2. moderator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Verb

moderātor

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

Descendants

• English: moderator
• French: modérateur
• Italian: moderatore
• Portuguese: moderador
• Romanian: moderator
• Spanish: moderador

References

• “moderator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “moderator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "moderator", 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)
• “moderator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French modérateur, from Latin moderatore. By surface analysis, modera +‎ -tor.

Noun

moderator n (plural moderatori)

1. moderator

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

moderator m anim (Cyrillic spelling модератор)

1. moderator

Swedish

Noun

moderator c

1. a moderator (at a debate or the like)
2. (Internet) a moderator

   Synonym: mod

3. (nuclear physics) a moderator

Declension

Related terms

• moderera

References

• moderator in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• moderator in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• moderator in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)