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Abbreviator

//əˈbɹiː.viˌeɪ.tɚ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person who abbreviates or shortens.
  2. 2
    one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work wordnet
  3. 3
    One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty was to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form. historical

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin abbreviātor. Compare French abbréviateur.

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