English Explanatory Dictionary

elector

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.
  2. A person eligible to vote to elect a Member of Parliament.
  3. A member of an electoral college; specifically (US) an official selected by a state as a member of the Electoral College to elect the president and vice president of the United States.
  4. Alternative letter-case form of Elector (“a German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire”).
noun
  1. A German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire; a prince-elector.

Pronunciation

/ɪˈlɛktə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-elector.wav /ɪˈlɛktɚ/ /iˈlɛktɚ/ /əˈlɛktɚ/ /əˈlɛktɔɹ/ /ɪˈlektə/ /əˈlektə/

Word forms

elector electors electour

Etymology

From Middle English electour (“one with a right to vote in electing some office, elector”), borrowed from Late Latin ēlēctor (“chooser, selector; voter, elector”), from Latin ēligere (“to elect”) + -tor (suffix forming masculine agent nouns), equivalent to elect + -or. Ēligere is the present active infinitive of ēligō (“to extract, pluck or root out; (figurative) to choose, elect, pick out”), from ē- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + legō (“to appoint, choose, select”) (from Proto-Italic *legō (“to gather, collect”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to collect, gather”)).

Related words

elect election

Derived words

electoral electorally electorate electoress electorial electorship electress faithless elector nonelector Electress Consort Prince-Elector Princess-Electress

Translations

Albanian: zgjedhës Arabic: نَاخِب Arabic: نَاخِبَة Armenian: ընտրող Azerbaijani: seçici Basque: hautesle Belarusian: вы́баршчык Belarusian: вы́баршчыца Belarusian: выбiра́льнiк Belarusian: выбiра́льнiца Belarusian: вы́барнік Belarusian: вы́барніца Bulgarian: избира́тел Bulgarian: избира́телка Catalan: elector Catalan: electora Chinese Mandarin: 選舉人 /选举人 Czech: volič Czech: volička Danish: vælger Dutch: kiezer Estonian: valija Finnish: äänioikeutettu Finnish: äänestäjä French: électeur m votard French: votant Georgian: ამომრჩეველი German: Stimmbürger German: Urnengänger German: Wahlberechtigter German: Wähler Greek: ψηφοφόρος Hebrew: בּוֹחֵר Hindi: निर्वाचक Hungarian: választó Indonesian: pemilih Italian: elettore Japanese: 選挙人 Kazakh: сайлаушы Korean: 선거인 Kyrgyz: шайлоочу Latvian: vēlētājs Latvian: vēlētāja Lithuanian: rinkėjas Macedonian: избирач Macedonian: избирачка Malay: pengundi Manx: reihder Māori: kaipōti Mongolian: сонгогч Mongolian: ᠰᠣᠩᠭᠤᠭᠴᠢ Norman: êlecteu Norwegian Bokmål: velger Norwegian Nynorsk: veljar Persian: رأیدهنده Polish: wyborca Polish: wyborczyni Polish: elektor Portuguese: eleitor
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