determinator

English

Etymology

From Latin [Term?].

Noun

determinator (plural determinators)

1. A determining factor.
2. (obsolete) Someone 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

Translations

determining factor

German: bestimmender Faktor (de) m

References

• “determinator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Verb

dēterminātor

1. 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, 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.