erector

English

Alternative forms

• erectour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

From Latin ērigō (“I raise up, elevate, lift”), equivalent to erect +‎ -or.

Noun

erector (plural erectors)

1. A person who, or a device which erects.
   • 2014, Mike Riley, Alison Cotgrave, Construction Technology 2: Industrial and Commercial Building:

     At this stage of the construction process the only people on the site would normally be groundworkers and the steel erectors, followed by the roof cladders.

2. (anatomy) Any of several muscles that make parts of the body erect.
3. An attachment to a microscope, telescope, etc. for making the image erect instead of inverted.
4. (astronautics) A vehicle used to support a rocket for transportation and for placing the rocket in an upright position within a gantry scaffold.

Derived terms

• erector spinae
• piloerector

Anagrams

• Tercero

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French érecteur.

Noun

erector n (plural erectori)

1. erector

Declension

Declension of erector

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	erector	erectorul		erectori	erectorile
genitive-dative	erector	erectorului		erectori	erectorilor
vocative	erectorule			erectorilor

Spanish

Etymology

From erecto +‎ -or.

Adjective

erector (feminine erectora, masculine plural erectores, feminine plural erectoras)

1. erecting

Noun

erector m (plural erectores)

1. erector

Further reading

• “erector”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10