automotor

English

Noun

automotor (plural automotors)

1. (obsolete) Any motorized vehicle.
   • 1896, Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute, volume 27, page 226:

     And the demand is enhanced by the call for rubber for tires to ordinary carriages, cycles, and automotors.

   • 1899, The Auto: The Motorist's Pictorial, volumes 3-4, page xiii:

     To the Publisher, THE AUTOMOTOR AND HORSELESS VEHICLE JOURNAL, 62, St. Martin's Lane, London, W.C.

   • 1915, Commerce Reports, volume 2, number 115, page 784:

     One of the commercial attachés of the Department of Commerce in South America transmits the name and address of an engineer who desires to receive full information relative to an automotor for an interurban railway.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French automoteur. By surface analysis, auto- +‎ motor.

Noun

automotor n (plural automotoare)

1. railcar

Declension

Declension of automotor

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) automotor	automotorul	(niște) automotoare	automotoarele
genitive/dative	(unui) automotor	automotorului	(unor) automotoare	automotoarelor
vocative	automotorule		automotoarelor

Spanish

Etymology

From auto- +‎ motor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /automoˈtoɾ/ [au̯.t̪o.moˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: au‧to‧mo‧tor

Adjective

automotor (feminine automotora or automotriz, masculine plural automotores, feminine plural automotoras or automotrices)

1. automotive
2. automobile

Related terms

• automoción

 

Further reading

• “automotor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014