English edit

Etymology edit

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

Noun edit

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 edit

Verb edit

dīlātātor

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

References edit

  • 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 edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French dilatateur, from Latin dilatator.

Adjective edit

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

  1. dilatative

Declension edit