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7-letter words (2 found)

ELECTOR,ELECTRO,

6-letter words (4 found)

COLTER,CREOLE,LECTOR,TERCEL,

5-letter words (9 found)

CEORL,CLOTE,CREEL,ELECT,ERECT,RECTO,RELET,TELCO,TERCE,

4-letter words (30 found)

CELT,CERE,CERO,CERT,CETE,CLOT,COLE,COLT,CORE,COTE,CREE,EORL,LEER,LEET,LERE,LORE,LOTE,ORLE,REEL,RETE,ROLE,ROTE,ROTL,TEEL,TEER,TELE,TOLE,TORC,TORE,TREE,

3-letter words (30 found)

CEE,CEL,COL,COR,COT,ECO,EEL,ELT,ERE,LEE,LET,LOR,LOT,OLE,ORC,ORE,ORT,REC,REE,REO,RET,ROC,ROE,ROT,TEC,TEE,TEL,TOC,TOE,TOR,

2-letter words (10 found)

EE,EL,ER,ET,LO,OE,OR,RE,TE,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 86 words from elector according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of elector

elector

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”)).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪˈlɛktə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ɪˈlɛktɚ/, /iˈlɛktɚ/, /əˈlɛktɚ/, (uncommon) /əˈlɛktɔɹ/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /ɪˈlektə/, /əˈlektə/
  • Rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: elect‧or

Usage notes

The uncommon but chiefly American pronunciation /əˈlɛktɔɹ/ (with the final syllable pronounced like tore) is due to influence from the primary pronunciation of mentor.

Noun

elector (plural electors)

  1. (politics) A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.
    1. (British, Commonwealth) A person eligible to vote to elect a Member of Parliament.
    2. 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.
    3. (historical) Alternative letter-case form of Elector (“a German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire”).

Alternative forms

  • electour (obsolete)

Derived terms

Related terms

  • elect
  • election

Translations

References

Further reading

  • prince-elector on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • elector (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • voting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • corelet, electro, electro-

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēlēctōrem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.ləkˈto]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [e.lekˈtoɾ]

Noun

elector m (plural electors, feminine electora)

  1. voter, elector

Derived terms

  • electoral
  • electorat

Further reading

  • “elector” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “elector”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “elector” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “elector” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Etymology

From ēligō (“to choose, pick out”) +‎ -tor (agentive suffix) from ex- (“out”) +‎ legō (“to gather, collect”) from Proto-Italic *legō, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-. Compare Ancient Greek ἐκλέγω (eklégō).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /eːˈleːk.tor/, [eːˈɫ̪eːkt̪ɔr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /eˈlek.tor/, [eˈlɛkt̪or]

Noun

ēlēctor m (genitive ēlēctōris, feminine ēlēctrīx); third declension

  1. chooser, selector
  2. voter, elector

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

References

  • “elector”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • elector in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 580.
  • elector in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 2378

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French électeur or Latin elector.

Noun

elector m (plural electori)

  1. elector

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ēlēctōrem (“chooser, selector”), from Latin ēligō (“to choose, pick out”), ex- +‎ legō from Proto-Italic *legō (“to gather, collect”), from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eleɡˈtoɾ/ [e.leɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: e‧lec‧tor

Noun

elector m (plural electores, feminine electora, feminine plural electoras)

  1. voter, elector
    Synonym: votante

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “elector”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Source: wiktionary.org