discriminator

English

Etymology

From discriminate +‎ -or.

Noun

discriminator (plural discriminators)

1. A person who discriminates, as:
   1. A person who differentiates things or concepts.

      Synonym: differentiator

      keen discriminator

      • 1871, The British Quarterly Review, volume 54, page 279:

        Generally, we may say, that Mr. Smith is a very accomplished etymological scholar, a very keen discriminator, and that his illustrative examples are selected with great industry, and from a wide field of English literature […]

   2. A person who acts unfairly through prejudice.

      I am not a discriminator

2. A test or variable, etc. that serves to distinguish between different things.

   Colour is not an effective discriminator when it comes to the spiciness of food.

3. (physics) Any of several electronic devices that convert some property of a signal into an amplitude whose value is proportional to the difference between the value of the input signal and that of a standard.
4. (marketing) A feature of the seller's offering that differs from a competitor's offering and is important to the buyer in question.

   Synonym: differentiator

   An especially strong warranty can be a discriminator in some marketplaces.

Derived terms

• anti-discriminator
• nondiscriminator

Translations

person who discriminates

• French: discriminateur (fr) m, discriminatrice (fr) f
• Galician: discriminador m, discriminadora f
• Italian: discriminatore m, discriminatrice f
• Portuguese: discriminador m, discriminadora f
• Spanish: discriminador (es) m, discriminadora (es) f

Anagrams

• doctrinairism

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /dis.kriː.miˈnaː.tor/, [d̪ɪs̠kriːmɪˈnäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dis.kri.miˈna.tor/, [d̪iskrimiˈnäːt̪or]

Etymology 1

From discrīminō +‎ -tor.

Noun

discrīminātor m (genitive discrīminātōris); third declension

1. (Late Latin) one who distinguishes or discriminates
   • 354 CE – 430 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, In epistolam Joannis ad Parthos tractatus 20.12

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	discrīminātor	discrīminātōrēs
genitive	discrīminātōris	discrīminātōrum
dative	discrīminātōrī	discrīminātōribus
accusative	discrīminātōrem	discrīminātōrēs
ablative	discrīminātōre	discrīminātōribus
vocative	discrīminātor	discrīminātōrēs

Etymology 2

Verb

discrīminātor

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

References

• “discriminator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• discriminator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• discriminator in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French discriminateur.

Noun

discriminator n (plural discriminatoare)

1. discriminator

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	discriminator	discriminatorul		discriminatoare	discriminatoarele
genitive-dative	discriminator	discriminatorului		discriminatoare	discriminatoarelor
vocative	discriminatorule			discriminatoarelor