cooperator

See also: coöperator

English

Alternative forms

• co-operator
• coöperator

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Latin co-lbor.

English co-

English operator

English cooperator

From co- + operator.

Noun

cooperator (plural cooperators)

1. One who cooperates; an associate.

Derived terms

• coopetitor
• noncooperator

Translations

one who cooperates

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 合作者 (zh) (hézuòzhě)

• Finnish: yhteistyökumppani, avustaja (fi)
• French: coopérateur (fr) m, coopératrice (fr) f
• Greek: συνέταιρος (el) m (synétairos), συνεταίρα f (synetaíra)

References

• "cooperator" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *h₃épos

Proto-Italic *opos

Latin opus

Latin opera

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -ātus

Latin operātusbf.

Latin operor

Latin cooperor

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Latin cooperātor

From cooperor + -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ko.ɔ.pɛˈraː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ko.o.peˈraː.tor]

Noun

cooperātor m (genitive cooperātōris); third declension

1. joint-labourer, coworker
   • c. 731 CE, Beda Presbyter, Historia ecclesiastica 4.1:

     Hunc offerens Hadrianus pontifici, ut episcopus ordinaretur, obtinuit; his tamen condicionibus interpositis, ut ipse eum perduceret Brittaniam, eo quod iam bis partes Galliarum diuersis ex causis adisset, et ob id maiorem huius itineris peragendi notitiam haberet, sufficiensque esset in possessione hominum propriorum; et ut ei doctrinae cooperator existens diligenter adtenderet, ne quid ille contrarium ueritati fidei, Grecorum more, in ecclesiam, cui praeesset, introduceret.

     Hadrian offered him to the pope to be ordained bishop, and prevailed; but upon these conditions, that he should conduct him into Britain, because he had already travelled through France twice upon several occasions, and was, therefore, better acquainted with the way, and was, moreover, sufficiently provided with men of his own; as also that being his fellow labourer in doctrine, he might take special care that Theodore should not, according to the custom of the Greeks, introduce anything contrary to the true faith into the church where he presided.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cooperātor	cooperātōrēs
genitive	cooperātōris	cooperātōrum
dative	cooperātōrī	cooperātōribus
accusative	cooperātōrem	cooperātōrēs
ablative	cooperātōre	cooperātōribus
vocative	cooperātor	cooperātōrēs

Descendants

• Catalan: cooperador
• French: coopérateur
• Galician: cooperador
• Italian: cooperatore
• Portuguese: cooperador
• Romanian: cooperator
• Spanish: cooperador
• → German: Kooperator
• → Russian: коопера́тор (kooperátor)

References

• “cooperator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "cooperator", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French coopérateur. By surface analysis, coopera + -tor.

Noun

cooperator m (plural cooperatori, feminine equivalent cooperatoare)

1. cooperator

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	cooperator	cooperatorul	cooperatori	cooperatorii
genitive-dative	cooperator	cooperatorului	cooperatori	cooperatorilor
vocative	cooperatorule		cooperatorilor