German

Noun

Moderator m ‎(genitive Moderators or Moderatoren, plural Moderatoren)

1. moderator (mediator, chairman, web forum administrator)
2. (TV, radio) host (US), presenter (UK)
3. (physics) moderator (substance to decrease the speed of fast neutrons)

English

Alternative forms

• moderatour (obsolete)

Noun

moderator ‎(plural moderators)

1. someone who moderates
   • Walton

     Angling was […] a moderator of passions.

   1. an arbitrator or mediator
   2. the chair or president of a meeting etc.
2. the person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian Church
3. (physics) a substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission
4. a device used to deaden some of the noise from a firearm, although not to the same extent as a suppressor or silencer.
5. (Britain) An examiner at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
   • 1792, Anthony à Wood, The History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford: In Two Books, volume 1, Oxford: John Gutch, OCLC 642441055, page 661:

     One hall called Civil Law Hall or School, flouriſhed about this time (though in its buildings decayed) by the care of the learned and judicious Dr. Will. Warham Principal or Moderator thereof […]

6. (Ireland) At the University of Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
7. (Britain) someone who supervises and monitors the setting and marking of examinations by different people to ensure consistency of standards.
8. A mechanical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.

Translations

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /mo.deˈraː.tor/, [mɔ.dɛˈraː.tɔr]

Noun

moderātor m ‎(genitive moderātōris); third declension

1. manager, ruler, governor, director
2. moderator

Inflection

Third declension.

Verb

moderātor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of moderō
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of moderō

References

• moderator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• moderator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• MODERATOR in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “moderator”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

moderator m ‎(Cyrillic spelling модератор)

1. moderator