# legislator
## English
### Alternative forms

* legislatour (obsolete, rare)

### Etymology

From Latin lēgislātor.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

legislator (plural legislators)
* Someone who creates or enacts laws.
** especially a member of a legislative body.
*** 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Interview”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 249:Give the children of the poor that portion of education which will enable them to know their own resources; which will cultivate in them an onward-looking hope, and give them rational amusement in their leisure hours: this, and this only, will work out that moral revolution, which is the legislator's noblest purpose.
    Synonym: lawmaker
** especially not any individual member of a legislative body but the abstracted author of a statute or statutes relevant for the principles of interpretation.
    Synonym: lawmaker

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* allegorist

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lēgislātor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [lɛɡɪsˈlatɔr]
* Hyphenation: lè‧gis‧la‧tor

### Noun

lègislator (uncountable)
* legislator

#### Related terms

* legislasi
* legislatif

### Further reading

* “legislator” 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

In Classical Latin, the word is usually written separately: lēgis lātor

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /leː.ɡisˈlaː.tor/, [ɫ̪eːɡɪs̠ˈɫ̪äːt̪ɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /le.d͡ʒisˈla.tor/, [led͡ʒizˈläːt̪or]

### Noun

lēgislātor m (genitive lēgislātōris); third declension
* legislator
** c. 130-180 C.E., Gaius, Institutiones, 3.76
    nec me praeterit non satis in ea re legislatorem voluntatem suam verbis expressisseIt has not escaped my observation, however, that the legislator did not express his intention in this manner in a way which is sufficiently clear.

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Catalan: legislador
* English: legislator
* French: législateur
* Italian: legislatore
* Norman: législateur
* → Polish: legislator
* Portuguese: legislador
* Romanian: legislator
* Spanish: legislador

### References

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

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lēgislātor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɛ.ɡiˈsla.tɔr/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -atɔr
* Syllabification: le‧gi‧sla‧tor

### Noun

legislator m pers
* (law) legal expert
* (government, law) legislator (person who creates or enacts laws)
    Synonyms: prawodawca, ustawodawca

#### Related terms

* legislacyjny
* legislatywny
* legislacja
* legislatura
* legislatywa

### Further reading

* legislator in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* legislator in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French législateur. By surface analysis, legisla +‎ -tor.

### Noun

legislator m (plural legislatori)
* legislator