English → Latin
“legislator” in Latin
lēxthe legal machinery of a state, the law; a law, statute, bill; the laws regarded as a body, the constitutioncondōto put together; to build, establish; form, fashion; make, construct; to put away, store or treasure up; preserve; interscrīptorwriter, author; scribecōnstituōto place, put, locate, lay; to set up, establish, constitute, found; to build, erect, constructscrībōto write
The English word legislator itself goes back to Latin lēgislātor.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
legislator
legis or legum lator (one who proposes a law to the people: the author of a law, or one who uses his influence in its favor, is called legis auctor); legum inventor, conditor, or scriptor, or qui leges condit, or scribit (one engaged in framing laws) qui disciplinam alicujus populi astringit legibus, qui civitatem legibus devincit, qui civitati leges dat or constituit (one that furnishes a code of laws). Lycurgus was the Lacedaemonian legislator, a Lycurgo est disciplina Lacedaemoniorum astricta legibus (Cic., Brut., 10, 40); Lycurgus Lacedaemoniis leges scripsit (after Cic.): a wise legislator, legum scriptor peritus et callidus (Cic., Dom., 18, 17).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for legislator?
- The usual Latin words for “legislator” are lēx, condō, scrīptor; also cōnstituō, scrībō. 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.