English → Latin
“disposer” in Latin
rēctorguide, leader; driver (of a horse, an elephant, a wagon, etc.); director, ruler, master, governormoderorto set a measure or bounds to; moderate, mitigate, allay, qualify.; to restrain; to manage, arrange, regulate, rule, guigubernātorHelmsman or pilot of a boat.; Leader or governor.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
disposer
Distributer, Vid:
Governor, rector: moderator: gubernator. God is the disposer of all things, rector universi Deus [SYN. in To GOVERN]; for which Sen. (Quaest. Nat., 5, 18) and Lactantius have dispositor mundi Deus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for disposer?
- The usual Latin words for “disposer” are rēctor, moderor, gubernātor. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.