ventilator
English
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Etymology
[edit]From ventilate + -or; cf. Latin ventilator.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈvɛntɪleɪtə/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
[edit]ventilator (plural ventilators)
- A device that circulates fresh air and expels stale or noxious air.
- (medicine) A machine that moves breathable air into and out of the lungs of a patient who is unable to breathe sufficiently.
- Hypernym: respirator
- (figurative) Some behaviour or happening that relieves a tense atmosphere or situation.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Act of Parliament”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 188:
- A lover's quarrel is made up of jealousies, doubts, hopes, fears, and all sorts of fantastic fancies: a matrimonial dispute, on the contrary, is composed of familiar and ordinary matter, a sort of ventilator to the temper!
- (obsolete, slang) A play or an actor so bad as to empty the theater.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]device that circulates fresh air and expels stale or noxious air
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medicine: machine to help breathing
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References
[edit]- Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1897) A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant
Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]ventilator c (singular definite ventilatoren, plural indefinite ventilatorer)
- fan, ventilator (device that circulates fresh air)
Declension
[edit]Declension of ventilator
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | ventilator | ventilatoren | ventilatorer | ventilatorerne |
| genitive | ventilators | ventilatorens | ventilatorers | ventilatorernes |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English ventilator.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ventilator m (plural ventilatoren or ventilators, diminutive ventilatortje n)
- fan, ventilator (device that circulates fresh air)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
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ventilator on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
References
[edit]- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “ventilator”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ventilō (“to expose to a draught”) + -tor.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /u̯en.tiˈlaː.tor/, [u̯ɛn̪t̪ɪˈɫ̪äːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ven.tiˈla.tor/, [ven̪t̪iˈläːt̪or]
Noun
[edit]ventilātor m (genitive ventilātōris); third declension
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ventilātor | ventilātōrēs |
| genitive | ventilātōris | ventilātōrum |
| dative | ventilātōrī | ventilātōribus |
| accusative | ventilātōrem | ventilātōrēs |
| ablative | ventilātōre | ventilātōribus |
| vocative | ventilātor | ventilātōrēs |
Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: ventilador
- → Dutch: ventilator
- → English: ventilator
- → French: ventilateur
- → Portuguese: ventilador
- → Romanian: ventilator
- → Russian: вентиля́тор (ventiljátor)
- → Serbo-Croatian: ventìlātor/вентѝла̄тор
- → Spanish: ventilador
Verb
[edit]ventilātor
References
[edit]- “ventilator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Occitan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ventilator m (plural ventilators) (Limousin)
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French ventilateur. Equivalent to ventila + -tor.
Noun
[edit]ventilator n (plural ventilatoare)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | ventilator | ventilatorul | ventilatoare | ventilatoarele | |
| genitive-dative | ventilator | ventilatorului | ventilatoare | ventilatoarelor | |
| vocative | ventilatorule | ventilatoarelor | |||
See also
[edit]Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ventilírati.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ventìlātor m (Cyrillic spelling вентѝла̄тор)
Declension
[edit]Declension of ventilator
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ventilator | ventilatori |
| genitive | ventilatora | ventilatora |
| dative | ventilatoru | ventilatorima |
| accusative | ventilator | ventilatore |
| vocative | ventilatoru / ventilatore | ventilatori |
| locative | ventilatoru | ventilatorima |
| instrumental | ventilatorom | ventilatorima |
References
[edit]- “ventilator”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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