Noun: gubernator
| Singular | gubernator |
| Plural | gubernators |
Sample Sentences
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The Egyptians, when they introduce God under the Symbolic Image of one that governes a Ship, thereby signifie his Domination and Empire as Gubernator of the Universe. For as a Gubernator of a Ship […] [1677, Theophilus Gale, The Court of the Gentiles, page 469:]
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Marcus Minutius Mude, a soldier of the sixth legion victorious, in performance of a vow, dedicated the altar to the African, Italian, Gallican (Goddesses, the) Mothers, to the Gubernator of the Sixth Legion. The writer confessed there was some inconsistency in the dedications to the Matres, &c., and to the Gubernator; […] [1863, John McCaul, Britanno-Roman Inscriptions: With Critical Notes, page 222:]
Nouns inflected like gubernator
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. * From Latin gubernātor (“governor”), from gubernō (“to govern”) + -tor, thus a doublet of governor.
2. * Alternatively a back-formation from gubernatorial, from same Latin source. See: Latin Nouns '
gubernātor'.