FromLatinōrdinātor, fromōrdināre +-tor.
ordinator (pluralordinators)
- One whoordains orestablishes; adirector.
1629,Thomas Adams,Sermons:if nature and herordinator, God, deny health, how unvaluable are their riches, how unavailable their projects!
1905 January, Ossian H. Lang, “The Educational Outlook”, inThe Forum, volume36, number 3, page435:The plan which has proved most satisfactory is something like this: One teacher, the classordinator, is made responsible for the general discipline and progress of a class.
1916, Thomas Alexander Lacey,Nature, Miracle and Sin, page58:God isordinator no less thancreator; if he isnaturarum bonarum creator, he is alsomalarum uoluntatum ordinator; if human wills make a bad use of good things , he in turn makes a good use even of evil wills.
1917 January 13, R. Andersen, “Short History of the Danish Reformation”, inThe Living Church, volume56, page361:This is the only synod in America to have anordinator, and it is here that the Lutheran resembles the Episcopalian. But theordinator is not consecrated—that is not a Danish custom—his office resembling that of the superintendents in Germany.
2011, Jack Vance,The Killing Machine:During the social hour, he went to the office of the assistantordinator, a weasel-faced man wearing the dark blue Interchange uniform as if it were a privilege.
Fromōrdināre +-tor.
ōrdinātor m (genitiveōrdinātōris,feminineōrdinātrīx);third declension
- orderer,regulator,arranger
- ordainer
Third-declension noun.
ōrdinātor
- second/third-personsingularfuturepassiveimperative ofōrdinō
- “ordinator”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "ordinator", in Charles du Fresne du Cange,Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “ordinator”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Borrowed fromLatinordinator.[1]
ordinator m (pluralordinators)(Languedoc, Provençal)
- computer
- ^Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana[1], L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber,2008-2025, page486
- Yves Lavalade (2010),Dictionnaire d'usage occitan/français - Limousin, Marche, Périgord (in French), Institut d'Estudis Occitans dau Lemosin,→ISBN, page 414.
- Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana[2], L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber,2008-2025, page486
Borrowed fromFrenchordinateur. Equivalent toordina +-tor.
ordinator n (pluralordinatoare)
- computer
