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单词 gubernator
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gubernatorn.

Brit. /ˈɡuːbəneɪtə/, U.S. /ˈɡubərˌneɪdər/
Forms: 1500s– gubernator, 1600s gubernatour.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin gubernātor.
Etymology: < classical Latin gubernātor helmsman, pilot, person who directs or controls, ruler, governor < gubernāt- , past participial stem of gubernāre govern v. + -or -or suffix. Compare governator n. and earlier governor n. and the foreign-language forms cited at these entries.With reference to Russia (compare quots. 1886, 1991) after Russian gubernator ruler of the first-level administrative division of Russia in 1708–1917 (compare government n. 9) and subsequently from 1995 (1657; < Polish gubernator governor-general (1564)). N.E.D. (1900) gives the pronunciation as (giū·bəɹneitǫɹ) /ˈɡjuːbəneɪtə(r)/.
A ruler, a governor. Cf. governator n.In quot. 1997 with reference to gubernation money: see gubernation n.
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1522 Bp. J. Clerk Let. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. I. 304 Who is in Spayne, and chief gubernator there vnder the Emperor.
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Gubernatour, hee which gouerneth.
1678 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iii. 5 The wise Creator and Gubernator of althings.
1761 F. Moore Vox Stellarum 8 Mars assumes the Power of being Gubernator, or Lord of this Eclipse.
1836 Allison's Picturesque Pocket Compan. 16 Queen Elizabeth..ordained, that..there should be a Master, Usher, and five Gubernators [for the ordering of a grammar school].
1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 281 Gubernators to whom was intrusted the administration of the principality.
1917 Ann. Med. Hist. 1 165/2 Baalzebub..only later in official demonology became one of the gubernators of the Infernal Kingdom of Lucifer.
1991 Times (Nexis) 19 Nov. (Features section) Having established Husak in supreme power the Russians found in him the ideal gubernator of their Czechoslovak province.
1997 A. Kenny Life in Oxf. x. 106 My first monthly salary..included twenty-odd pounds for the gubernation of Huntspill. I had not previously had any idea that I was gubernator of Huntspill.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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