abbreviator
nounUK /əˈbɹiː.viˌeɪ.tɚ/ · US /əˈbɹi.viˌeɪ.tɚ/
Etymology From Ecclesiastical Latin abbreviātor. Compare French abbréviateur.
1
A person who abbreviates or shortens.
2
Catholicism, Christianity, Roman Catholicism Historical One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty was to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.