commentator

• commentatour (archaic)

From Middle English commentator, from Latin commentātor.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑmənˌteɪtəɹ/

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commentator (plural commentators)

1. A person who comments; especially someone who is paid to give his/her opinions in the media about current affairs, sports, etc.
2. (historical, law) A medieval legal scholar who authored prose commentaries on civil law; (specifically) a member of a comparatively innovative 14th-century school of jurisprudence, typically distinguished from the earlier glossators.
   • 2009, Randall Lesaffer, European Legal History: A Cultural and Political Perspective, →ISBN, page 257:

     It would be well into the fourteenth century before the commentators came into their own.

• color commentator
• commentate

• commentary

From commentor +‎ -tor. In the medieval sense of “jailer”, from the jailer’s duty of writing commentārii (“memoranda”) with records of those held in custody.

commentātor m (genitive commentātōris); third declension

1. (Late Latin) inventor, author
2. (Late Latin) interpreter
3. (Medieval Latin) jailer

Third-declension noun.

• commentātrīx

commentātor

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of commentor

• “commentator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• commentator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• commentator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Souter, Alexander (1949) “commentator”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.‎, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 62
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “commentator”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 217
• commentator in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016