Etymology

abbreviator

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Today it means: A person who abbreviates or shortens. Full definition →

First used early 16th c.Ecclesiastical Latin abbreviātor
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  1. Ecclesiastical Latin · derived fromabbreviātor
  2. English todayabbreviator

From Ecclesiastical Latin abbreviātor. Compare French abbréviateur.

First known use, by meaning

  • early 16th c. A person who abbreviates or shortens.
  • mid 16th c. One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty was to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.