determinator

English

Etymology

Latin [Term?]

Noun

determinator (plural determinators)

A determining factor.
(obsolete) One who determines.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
  the oracle of life, the great determinator of virginity, conception, fertility, and the inscrutable infirmities of the whole body

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “determinator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Translations

determining factor

German: bestimmender Faktor (de) m

Latin

Verb

dēterminātor

second/third-person singular future passive imperative of dēterminō

References

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

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