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单词 relator
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relatorn.

Brit. /rᵻˈleɪtə/, U.S. /rəˈleɪdər/, /riˈleɪdər/
Forms: 1500s–1600s relatour, 1500s– relator.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin relātor.
Etymology: < classical Latin relātor person who puts forward a motion in the senate, person who registers, recording clerk, in post-classical Latin also narrator, reporter (early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), reciter, storyteller (from 8th cent. in British sources) < relāt- , past participial stem of referre refer v. (compare relate v.) + -or -or suffix. Compare Middle French, French †relateur (1374), Catalan relator (1397), Spanish relator (1421), Portuguese relator (first half of the 16th cent.), Italian relatore (a1543). In sense 5 after relatum n. 2.With the form relatour compare -our suffix.
1. Probably: a court recorder, a clerk. Obsolete. rare.
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1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 695 There were eight Clearks, and twelue Lay men, foure Princes of the blood for Requests, two Chambers of Inquiries, where there were eight Lay men, and eight Clearks Iudges, and foure and twentie Relators [Fr. rapporteurs].
2.
a. A person who relates something; a narrator.Common in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > narrator
teller1340
expositora1398
accounterc1400
reporterc1405
provinoura1475
recounter1485
relator1588
relater1598
repeater1598
narrator1599
retailer1607
nomenclator1628
enarrator1632
accountant1655
relatist1656
narrater1758
narratrix1796
narratress1798
1588 R. Bancroft Serm. at Paules Crosse 28 I have not used a worde of mine owne heerin, but have been a faithfull relator unto you, what the clergie factious do thinke of their lay schollers.
1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre 126 The discription by draught beeing well knowen, accompanied with the liuely voice of the Relator.
1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 562 You are an vnfaithfull Relatour of the practise of the Primitiue Church.
1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall ix. 72 A faithful Relator of Experiments.
a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 15 The relators of this story..were doubtless fully perswaded of the truth of it.
1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia II. xxxvi. 71 Imlac..was not very confident of the veracity of the relator.
1837 R. Southey Doctor IV. 315 The Biographer, or Historian,..or rather the reminiscent relator of circumstances.
1862 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles (ed. 7) iii. 130 It will cause little wonder that two or three relators have in part seized diversely the culminating points of a story.
1900 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 13 211 The language of the original relator is reproduced as nearly as practicable.
1990 P. M. Price in S. L. Aricò Contemp. Women Writers Italy 118 Novels are works of fiction in which the distinction between relator and author still exist.
b. A person who acts as an informant for another. Obsolete. rare.
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society > communication > information > action of informing > [noun] > person who > private or special
bird1546
relator1607
a little birdie1881
tipster1884
one's spies1955
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 447 It may be that he or his relatour had seene them playing together as Goates doe.
?1612 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 42 When this place affords anything worth your hearing, I will be your relator.
c. The historian of a place. Obsolete. rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > historical narrative > [noun] > historian > historian of a place
relator1691
Londonologist1864
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 641 Of that little Parish..he was in effect the Relator.
3. Law. A person who lays an information (information n. 5a), an informant, a complainant; spec. a person at whose request an action is brought by the Attorney General. Cf. relation n. 1c.When English law does not allow a private individual (X) to bring a case against a public body (Y), the case can be brought on his or her behalf by the Attorney General with a designation of the form Attorney General ex rel. X v. Y, where X is the relator. The relator is still responsible for instructing counsel and remains liable for costs.
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society > communication > information > action of informing > [noun] > person who
teller1340
revelatorc1443
advertiser1548
intelligencer1569
upgiver1577
declarator1583
relater1593
relator1593
informer1598
imparter1600
intelligent1602
referendary1614
informant1641
1593 R. Cosin Apol. for Sundrie Proc. (rev. ed.) ii. ii. 11 The prosecutour there is but as a relatour, partly to stirre vp, and partly to ease the office of that Court, by furnishing it with proofes.
1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) i. 6 Especiallye promoters newelye named Relatours, a generacion hated both of the good and badd people.
1632 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 96 Sr John Finch for the relator this day replyed.
1674 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1888) VI. This Court doth approve of, admit, and allow Alex. Dixon to use, exercise and follow the office of a Relator.
1710 Act 9 Anne c. 20 §4 It shall and may be lawful..for the proper officer..to exhibit one or more... Informations in the nature of a Quo Warranto, at the relation of any person or persons desiring to sue or prosecute the same, and who shall be mentioned..to be the Relator or Relators against such person or persons.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 427 The attorney general, at the relation of some informant, (who is usually called the relator) files ex officio an information in the court of chancery.
1823 Act 4 Geo. IV c. 76 §23 To the Knowledge or Belief of the Relator or Relators so making Oath.
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 May 6 The relator..is a descendant of a brother of the second wife of the testator.
1902 Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 168 The suggestion that the Courts have any power over the jurisdiction of the Attorney-General when he is suing on behalf of a relator is a matter in which he is the only person who has to decide those questions.
1977 Times 28 Jan. 28/3 The Attorney should not allow himself to be influenced by the merits or demerits of the particular relator.
2000 Harvard Law Rev. 113 804 The relators advanced their action in the form of petitions for writs of mandamus and prohibition.
4. Perhaps: a relative. Obsolete. rare.Apparently a mistranslation of the source, Quintus Curtius Histories of Alexander the Great iii. iii.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > [noun]
gadlingeOE
sibmanOE
friendOE
sibOE
siblingOE
kinsmanc1175
friendmana1200
kinc1200
cousinc1300
allyc1380
kindreda1450
parent?c1450
alliancec1475
lyance1502
relation1502
relate1651
relative1657
relator1665
family member1673
correlative1697
relater1702
rellie1921
rello1982
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 258 The Arch-flamen carried the holy Fire, attended by the Priests and three hundred sixty five Youths who were their relators.
5. Linguistics. Viggo Brøndal's term for: the concept of relation, one of four concepts (along with descriptor, relatum, and descriptor) which, in various combinations, form the logical basis of all parts of speech (now rare). Also (in later use): a word expressing relation between other words (cf. relational adj. 2).Brøndal's use broadly corresponds to the Aristotelian category of relation. Cf. descriptor n. 2, relatum n. 2, descriptum n. 2.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > other parts of speech > [noun] > relative or connective
referent1635
connective1751
subjunctivea1831
link-word1871
relational1895
relation word1909
relator1933
relativizer1941
1933 O. Jespersen Syst. Gram. 12 Recently V. Brøndal..has made a very bold attempt at a completely new system..Relator (R) and Relatum (r), Descriptor (D) and Descriptum (d).
1965 Language 41 73 Thus the whole string is a relator-axis phrase of which on manifests relator and the rest manifests axis.
2007 D. Geeraerts & H. Cuyckens Oxf. Handbk. Cognitive Linguistics xvi. 412 The prototype of a predicative relator is a transitive verb.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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