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In form, from Middle English commentator, from Latin commentātor (“author, inventor, interpreter, jailer”), from commentātus + -or (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from commentāri (“to ponder, to study, to write upon”), from comminīscor (“to think over, to invent”) + -tārī (“to frequently be ~ed”). In meaning, influenced by comment and commentary.

commentator (plural commentators)

  1. A person who makes a commentary, particularly
    1. (rare, obsolete) Synonym of historian or chronicler, a person who compiles an annotated history. [1475]
    2. A person who compiles explanations and critical notes on a text. [1641]
    3. (law) A person who compiles explanations of the law, particularly (historical) comparatively innovative European jurists in the 14th century, as opposed to 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.

    4. (Christianity) A person who compiles explanations of biblical passages.
    5. (media, sports) A person who provides an instantaneous description of a public event, particularly a sporting event, for a mass media audience. [1928]
    7. (media) A person who provides analysis or opinion on current events, especially for a mass media audience. [1938]
  • (expositor on law or scripture): interpreter (obsolete)

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.

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.‎[1], 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[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016