separator

English

Etymology

separate +‎ -or

Noun

separator (plural separators)

1. An object located between two or more things and hence separating them.
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2. A device for removing one substance from another, such as cream from milk.
3. One who separates; an agent performing the action of separating.

Translations

an object located between two or more things and hence separating them

• Afrikaans: verdeler
• Bulgarian: разделител m (razdelitel), сепаратор m (separator)
• Finnish: erotin (fi)
• Hungarian: szétválasztó, elválasztó (hu)
• Japanese: 仕切り (しきり; shikiri)
• Portuguese: separador (pt) m
• Romanian: separator (ro) n
• Swedish: avbalkning c, separator (sv) c

device for removing one substance from another

• Finnish: erotin (fi); separaattori (fi)
• German: Abscheider (de) m
• Japanese: 分離器 (ぶんりき; bunriki)
• Maori: hepareita (for removing cream from milk), pūwhakawehe (computing)
• Norman: machinne à s'pather
• Portuguese: separador (pt) m
• Romanian: separator (ro) n
• Swedish: separator (sv) c

one who separates

• Hungarian: szétválasztó, elválasztó (hu)
• Japanese: 分離者 (ぶんりしゃ; bunrisha)
• Romanian: separator (ro) n
• Swedish: separatör (sv) c, separatorskötare (sv) c

Anagrams

• Paratores, sea parrot, sea-parrot

Latin

Verb

sēparātor

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

References

• “separator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• separator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

From French séparateur, from Latin separator.

Noun

separator n (plural separatori)

1. separator

Declension

Declension of separator

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) separator	separatorul	(niște) separatori	separatorile
genitive/dative	(unui) separator	separatorului	(unor) separatori	separatorilor
vocative	separatorule		separatorilor