dilatator

English

Etymology

From Latin dilatator (“propagator”), from dilato (“I spread out”).

Noun

dilatator (plural dilatators)

1. (anatomy) A muscle that dilates any part; a dilator.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dilatator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

dīlātātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of dīlātō

References

• “dilatator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dilatator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French dilatateur, from Latin dilatator.

Adjective

dilatator m or n (feminine singular dilatatoare, masculine plural dilatatori, feminine and neuter plural dilatatoare)

1. dilatative

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	dilatator		dilatatoare		dilatatori	dilatatoare
	definite	dilatatorul		dilatatoarea		dilatatorii	dilatatoarele
genitive- dative	indefinite	dilatator		dilatatoare		dilatatori	dilatatoare
	definite	dilatatorului		dilatatoarei		dilatatorilor	dilatatoarelor