# ordinator
## English
### Etymology

From Latin ōrdinātor, from ōrdināre + -tor.

### Noun

ordinator (plural ordinators)
* One who ordains or establishes; a director.
** 1629, Thomas Adams, Sermons:if nature and her ordinator, God, deny health, how unvaluable are their riches, how unavailable their projects!
** 1905 January, Ossian H. Lang, “The Educational Outlook”, in The Forum, volume 36, number 3, page 435:The plan which has proved most satisfactory is something like this: One teacher, the class ordinator, is made responsible for the general discipline and progress of a class.
** 1916, Thomas Alexander Lacey, Nature, Miracle and Sin, page 58:God is ordinator no less than creator; if he is naturarum bonarum creator, he is also malarum 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”, in The Living Church, volume 56, page 361:This is the only synod in America to have an ordinator, and it is here that the Lutheran resembles the Episcopalian. But the ordinator 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 assistant ordinator, a weasel-faced man wearing the dark blue Interchange uniform as if it were a privilege.

#### Related terms

* coordinator

### Anagrams

* Radiotron

## Latin
### Etymology

From ōrdināre +‎ -tor.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /oːr.diˈnaː.tor/, [oːrd̪ɪˈnäːt̪ɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /or.diˈna.tor/, [ord̪iˈnäːt̪or]

### Noun

ōrdinātor m (genitive ōrdinātōris, feminine ōrdinātrīx); third declension
* orderer, regulator, arranger
* ordainer

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | ōrdinātor | ōrdinātōrēs |
| Genitive | ōrdinātōris | ōrdinātōrum |
| Dative | ōrdinātōrī | ōrdinātōribus |
| Accusative | ōrdinātōrem | ōrdinātōrēs |
| Ablative | ōrdinātōre | ōrdinātōribus |
| Vocative | ōrdinātor | ōrdinātōrēs |

#### Descendants

* Catalan: ordinador
* → French: ordinateur
** → Romanian: ordinator
** → Spanish: ordenador
* → Russian: ординатор (ordinator)

### Verb

ōrdinātor
* second/third-person singular future passive imperative of ōrdinō

### References

* “ordinator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* ordinator 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)
* ordinator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Occitan
### Alternative forms

* ordenador, ordinador (misspellings)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ordinator.

### Noun

ordinator m (plural ordinators) (Languedoc, Provençal)
* computer

#### Related terms

* microordinator
* ordinatician

#### See also

* imprimanta
* informatica
* logicial

### References

* ↑ Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 486.

### Further reading

* Yves Lavalade, Dictionnaire d'usage occitan/français - Limousin, Marche, Périgord, Institut d'Estudis Occitans dau Lemosin, 2010, →ISBN, page 414.
* Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 486.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French ordinateur. Equivalent to ordina +‎ -tor.

### Noun

ordinator n (plural ordinatoare)
* computer