duplicator

English

Etymology

From duplicate +‎ -or.

Noun

duplicator (plural duplicators)

1. A device that reproduces something, such as printed documents or compact discs; a copier.
   • 1975, Wisconsin Library Bulletin, volumes 71-72, page 116:

     Schools joining the cooperative were assessed an initial membership fee to purchase a high-speed tape duplicator and about 200 tapes.

Derived terms

• spirit duplicator
• stencil duplicator

 

Translations

copying machine

• French: polycopieuse f
• Irish: gléas cóipeála. m
• Manx: coipeyder m
• Romanian: copiator n, mașină de copiat f, duplicator n
• Scottish Gaelic: dùblaichear m
• Welsh: dyblygydd m

Anagrams

• dual-tropic, dualtropic

Latin

Verb

duplicātor

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

References

• “duplicator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• duplicator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• duplicator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.