English

Noun

dispensator ‎(plural dispensators)

1. A distributor; a dispenser.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

Latin

Noun

dispensātor m ‎(genitive dispensātōris); third declension

1. steward, attendant
2. treasurer
3. dispenser

Inflection

Third declension.

References

• 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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “dispensator”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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