respirator

See also: respirátor

English

Etymology

From respirate +‎ -or.

Noun

respirator (plural respirators)

1. A facemask designed to keep out harmful dusts, fumes, and mists.

   Hyponym: ventilator

   1. (occupational safety and health) A form of personal protective equipment, or PPE.

      The N95 respirator is designed to filter out 95 percent of particles 0.3 microns in size.

      • 2006 April 8, Rick Weiss, “Nanotech Raises Worker-Safety Questions”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 October 2022‎^[2]:

        Similarly, a few studies have suggested that high-quality respirators can trap 95 percent of nanoparticles. But "whether 95 percent efficiency is good enough or not is still open to discussion," said Hung Min Chein of the Industrial Technology Research Institute in Chutung, Taiwan, who is studying the issue.

      • 2020 March 30, Andrew Jacobs, Rachel Abrams, “Hive Mind of Makers Rises to Meet Pandemic”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN:

        A national hive mind has come to life on an open source Facebook group where hundreds of strangers trade tips on making respirator masks with baby wipes and paper towels, […]

   2. A device designed to allow breathing when it would otherwise be hindered, as by a medical condition or the presence of poisonous vapors.

      The house painters were each officially required to wear a respirator, but this was sometimes disregarded in the extreme heat.

Derived terms

• Both respirator
• responaut

Related terms

• irrespirable

Translations

device to allow breathing

• Belarusian: рэспіра́тар m (respirátar)
• Bulgarian: респира́тор m (respirátor)
• Catalan: respirador m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 呼吸器 (zh) (hūxīqì), 呼吸機 / 呼吸机 (hūxījī)

• Czech: respirátor (cs) m
• Danish: respirator (da) c
• Dutch: beademingsmachine (nl) f
• Estonian: respiraator
• Faroese: andingartól n
• Finnish: hengityssuojain, hengityslaite
• French: respirateur (fr) m
• Galician: respirador m
• German: Beatmungsgerät (de) n
• Hungarian: lélegeztetőgép
• Irish: análaitheoir m
• Italian: respiratore (it) m, aeroforo m
• Japanese: 人工呼吸器 (じんこうこきゅうき, jinkō kokyūki)
• Kazakh: демперде (demperde), респиратор (respirator)
• Korean: 인공호흡기(人工呼吸器) (in'gonghoheupgi)
• Macedonian: респира́тор m (respirátor)
• Polish: respirator (pl) m
• Portuguese: respirador (pt) m
• Russian: респира́тор (ru) m (respirátor)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: респѝра̄тор m

  Roman: respìrātor (sh) m

• Slovak: respirátor m
• Slovene: respirator m
• Spanish: respirador (es) m
• Swedish: respirator (sv) c
• Thai: เครื่องช่วยหายใจ (krʉ̂ʉang-chûai-hǎai-jai)
• Turkish: respiratör
• Ukrainian: респіра́тор m (respirátor)
• Vietnamese: mặt nạ phòng độc, mặt nạ chống độc
• Welsh: peiriant anadlu m
• Yiddish: רעספּיראַטאָר m (respirator)

Further reading

• respirator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• respirator on the Simple English Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^simple

Anagrams

• airporters, parrotries

Danish

Noun

respirator c (singular definite respiratoren, plural indefinite respiratorer)

1. respirator

Declension

Declension of respirator

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	respirator	respiratoren	respiratorer	respiratorerne
genitive	respirators	respiratorens	respiratorers	respiratorernes

Further reading

• “respirator” in Den Danske Ordbog

Latin

Verb

respīrātor

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

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French respirateur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɛs.piˈra.tɔr/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -atɔr
• Syllabification: res‧pi‧ra‧tor

Noun

respirator m inan

1. ventilator (machine that moves breathable air into and out of the lungs of a patient who is unable to breathe sufficiently)
2. respirator (device designed to allow breathing when it would otherwise be hindered, as by a medical condition or the presence of poisonous vapors)

Declension

Declension of respirator

	singular	plural
nominative	respirator	respiratory
genitive	respiratoru	respiratorów
dative	respiratorowi	respiratorom
accusative	respirator	respiratory
instrumental	respiratorem	respiratorami
locative	respiratorze	respiratorach
vocative	respiratorze	respiratory

Further reading

• respirator in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• respirator in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French respiratoire. By surface analysis, respira +‎ -tor.

Adjective

respirator m or n (feminine singular respiratoare, masculine plural respiratori, feminine and neuter plural respiratoare)

1. respiratory

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	respirator		respiratoare		respiratori	respiratoare
	definite	respiratorul		respiratoarea		respiratorii	respiratoarele
genitive- dative	indefinite	respirator		respiratoare		respiratori	respiratoare
	definite	respiratorului		respiratoarei		respiratorilor	respiratoarelor

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /respǐraːtor/
• Hyphenation: res‧pi‧ra‧tor

Noun

respìrātor m (Cyrillic spelling респѝра̄тор)

1. respirator

Declension

Declension of respirator

	singular	plural
nominative	respirator	respiratori
genitive	respiratora	respiratora
dative	respiratoru	respiratorima
accusative	respirator	respiratore
vocative	respiratoru / respiratore	respiratori
locative	respiratoru	respiratorima
instrumental	respiratorom	respiratorima

Swedish

Noun

respirator c

1. respirator

Declension

Declension of respirator

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	respirator	respirators
	definite	respiratorn	respiratorns
plural	indefinite	respiratorer	respiratorers
	definite	respiratorerna	respiratorernas

References

• respirator in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• respirator in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• respirator in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)