legislator
英 ['ledʒɪsleɪtə]***美 ['lɛdʒɪsletɚ]
中文词源
- legislator (n.)
- c. 1600, from Latin legis lator "proposer of a law," from legis, genitive of lex "law" + lator "proposer," agent noun of latus "borne, brought, carried" (see oblate (n.)), used as past tense of ferre "to carry" (see infer). Fem. form legislatrix is from 1670s.
