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elector

Pronunciation: /ɪˈlɛktə/

The English word “elector” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.
  2. A person eligible to vote to elect a Member of Parliament.
  3. A member of an electoral college; specifically (US) an official selected by a state as a member of the Electoral College to elect the president and vice president of the United States.

Etymology

From Middle English electour (“one with a right to vote in electing some office, elector”), borrowed from Late Latin ēlēctor (“chooser, selector; voter, elector”), from Latin ēligere (“to elect”) + -tor (suffix forming masculine agent nouns), equivalent to elect + -or. Ēligere is the present active infinitive of ēligō (“to extract, pluck or root out; (figurative) to choose, elect, pick out”),…

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