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gubernator

gubernator

Latin

Noun

gubernātor m ‎(genitive gubernātōris); third declension

Helmsman or pilot of a boat.
- Unknown origin, often attributed to Publilius Syrus
  In tranquillo esse quisque gubernator potest.
  In a calm sea anyone can be the helmsman.
Leader or governor.

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	gubernātor	gubernātōrēs
genitive	gubernātōris	gubernātōrum
dative	gubernātōrī	gubernātōribus
accusative	gubernātōrem	gubernātōrēs
ablative	gubernātōre	gubernātōribus
vocative	gubernātor	gubernātōrēs

Related terms

gubernātrix

Descendants

descendants

Asturian: gobernador, gobernaor
Corsican: guvernatore, guvernadore
Czech: guvernér
Emilian: gvernatåur
English: gubernatorial
Finnish: kuvernööri
Franco-Provençal: govèrnor
Friulian: guviernadôr
Galician: gobernador
Istriot: guvarnadur
Italian: governatore
Ladin: goernador
Ladino: gobernador
Lombard: governatur
Mirandese: gobernador
Old Catalan: governador
- Catalan: governador
Old French: gouvreneur
- Middle English: governour
  - English: governor
    - Bahamian Creole: governor
    - Belizean Creole: govna
    - Gullah: gobna
    - Krio: governor
    - Pichinglis: gɔvna, gɔbna
    - Pijin: gavna
    - Tobagonian Creole English: governor
- Middle French: gouverneur
  - French: gouverneur
    - Antillean Creole: gouvènè
    - Dutch: gouverneur
    - German: Gouverneur
    - Louisiana Creole French: gouvènœr, gouvnœr, gouvèrnè, gouvèrnen, gouvèrnèr
    - Seychellois Creole: gouverner
- Norman: gouvernaeux, gouverneux (Guernsey), gouvèrneux (Jersey)
- Walloon: gouverneûr

Piedmontese: guvernatur
Portuguese: governador
- Guinea-Bissau Creole: gubernadur
- Indo-Portuguese: governador
- Kabuverdianu: guvernador
- Principense: govenadô
- Sãotomense: govenadô
- Tetum: governadór
Romanian: guvernator
Romansch: guvernatur
Russian: губернатор ‎(gubernator)
Sabir: gobernator
Sardinian: cuberradore
Sicilian: governaturi
Slovak: guvernér
Spanish: gobernador
- Chavacano: gobernador
- Papiamentu: gobernador

References

gubernator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
gubernator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
GUBERNATOR in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “gubernator”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
gubernator in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers