revolver
English edit
Etymology edit
revolve + -er, coined by American inventor Samuel Colt in 1835.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
revolver (plural revolvers)
- (firearms) A handgun with a revolving chamber enabling several shots to be fired without reloading.
- Synonyms: wheelgun, Colt
- Hyponyms: six-gun, six-shooter
- (by extension) Any (personal) firearm with such a mechanism.
- (finance) Synonym of revolving line of credit, a form of credit permitting the holder to repeatedly borrow money.
- 2023 December 16, “Musk told lenders they would not lose money on Twitter deal”, in FT Weekend, Companies & Markets, page 10:
- The debt is split between $6.5bn of term loans, as well as $6bn of senior and junior bonds and a $500mn revolver.
- agent noun of revolve; something that revolves.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Catalan: revòlver
- → Chuvash: ляворвăр (ljavorvăr)
- → Crimean Tatar: revolver
- → Danish: revolver
- → Dutch: revolver
- → Esperanto: revolvero
- → Finnish: revolveri
- → French: revolver
- → Gagauz: livorver
- → Galician: revólver
- → German: Revolver
- → Hungarian: revolver
- → Italian: revolver
- → Japanese: リボルバー (riborubā)
- Norwegian:
- → Polish: rewolwer
- → Portuguese: revólver
- → Russian: револьвер (revolʹver)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- → Spanish: revólver
- → Swedish: revolver
- → Urum: levorver
- → Yiddish: רעוואָלווער (revolver)
Translations edit
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References edit
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024), “revolver”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading edit
Crimean Tatar edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English revolver.
Noun edit
revolver
Declension edit
nominative | revolver |
---|---|
genitive | revolverniñ |
dative | revolverge |
accusative | revolverni |
locative | revolverde |
ablative | revolverden |
References edit
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
revolver m inan
- revolver (handgun)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | revolver | revolvery |
genitive | revolveru | revolverů |
dative | revolveru | revolverům |
accusative | revolver | revolvery |
vocative | revolvere | revolvery |
locative | revolveru | revolverech |
instrumental | revolverem | revolvery |
Related terms edit
- See voluta
Further reading edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English revolver.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
revolver m (plural revolvers, diminutive revolvertje n)
Hypernyms edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English revolver.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
revolver m (plural revolvers)
- revolver (gun)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “revolver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “revolver” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English revolver.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
revolver (plural revolverek)
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | revolver | revolverek |
accusative | revolvert | revolvereket |
dative | revolvernek | revolvereknek |
instrumental | revolverrel | revolverekkel |
causal-final | revolverért | revolverekért |
translative | revolverré | revolverekké |
terminative | revolverig | revolverekig |
essive-formal | revolverként | revolverekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | revolverben | revolverekben |
superessive | revolveren | revolvereken |
adessive | revolvernél | revolvereknél |
illative | revolverbe | revolverekbe |
sublative | revolverre | revolverekre |
allative | revolverhez | revolverekhez |
elative | revolverből | revolverekből |
delative | revolverről | revolverekről |
ablative | revolvertől | revolverektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
revolveré | revolvereké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
revolveréi | revolverekéi |
Possessive forms of revolver | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | revolverem | revolvereim |
2nd person sing. | revolvered | revolvereid |
3rd person sing. | revolvere | revolverei |
1st person plural | revolverünk | revolvereink |
2nd person plural | revolveretek | revolvereitek |
3rd person plural | revolverük | revolvereik |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- revolver in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English revolver.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
revolver m (invariable)
- revolver (handgun)
- Synonyms: pistola a tamburo, rivoltella
- rotating attachment, on a camera, having multiple lenses
References edit
- ^ revolver in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English revolver.
Noun edit
revolver m (definite singular revolveren, indefinite plural revolvere, definite plural revolverne)
- a revolver
- Han fikk tak i en revolver.
- He got hold of a revolver.
References edit
- “revolver” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English revolver.
Noun edit
revolver m (definite singular revolveren, indefinite plural revolverar, definite plural revolverane)
- a revolver
- Han fekk tak i ein revolver.
- He got hold of a revolver.
- Han fekk tak i ein revolver.
References edit
- “revolver” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Latin revolvere (“to turn over, to roll back, to reflect upon”), from re- (“back, again”) + volvō (“roll”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: re‧vol‧ver
Verb edit
revolver (first-person singular present revolvo, first-person singular preterite revolvi, past participle revolvido, short past participle revolto)
Conjugation edit
Related terms edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French revolver.
Noun edit
revolver n (plural revolvere)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) revolver | revolverul | (niște) revolvere | revolverele |
genitive/dative | (unui) revolver | revolverului | (unor) revolvere | revolverelor |
vocative | revolverule | revolverelor |
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English revolver.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
revòlver m (Cyrillic spelling рево̀лвер)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | revolver | revolveri |
genitive | revolvera | revolvera |
dative | revolveru | revolverima |
accusative | revolver | revolvere |
vocative | revolveru | revolveri |
locative | revolveru | revolverima |
instrumental | revolverom | revolverima |
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin revolvere (“turn over, roll back, reflect upon”), from re- (“back, again”) + volvō (“roll”). Cognate with English revolve although a false friend.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
revolver (first-person singular present revuelvo, first-person singular preterite revolví, past participle revuelto)
- to stir, to mix
- to jumble up, to disarrange
- to turn over, to poke about, to rummage around in
- to consider, to turn over, to ponder
- to disturb, to stir up, to upset
- to swing around
- to wrap, to wrap up
- to turn 360 degrees, to revolve
Usage notes edit
- Revolver is a false friend, and does not mean a type of gun in Spanish. The Spanish word for that English meaning of revolver is revólver.
Conjugation edit
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “revolver”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English revolver.
Noun edit
revolver c
- a revolver (firearm)
Declension edit
Declension of revolver | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | revolver | revolvern | revolvrar | revolvrarna |
Genitive | revolvers | revolverns | revolvrars | revolvrarnas |