dispensator

From Latin dispēnsātor.

dispensator (plural dispensators)

1. A distributor; someone who dispenses^[1].

   Coordinate term: dispensatrix

   • c. 1598, Francis Bacon, An Account of […] Compositions for Alienations:

     dispensators of this her royal favour towards her people

   • 1804, Thomas Taylor, The Dissertations of Maximus Tyrius, Dissertation 25:

     the dispensator of the seasons

2. (Ancient Rome) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• panstroside

From dispēnsō +‎ -tor.

dispēnsātor m (genitive dispēnsātōris, feminine dispēnsātrīx); third declension

1. steward, attendant
2. treasurer
3. dispenser

Third-declension noun.

• “dispensator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dispensator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "dispensator", 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)
• “dispensator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “dispensator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dispensator”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Borrowed from French dispensateur or Latin dispensator. By surface analysis, dispensa +‎ -tor.

dispensator m or n (feminine singular dispensatoare, masculine plural dispensatori, feminine/neuter plural dispensatoare)

1. dispenser