ventilator
English edit
Etymology edit
ventilate + -or; cf. Latin ventilator.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ventilator (plural ventilators)
- A device that circulates fresh air and expels stale or noxious air.
- (medicine) A machine that moves breathable air into and out of the lungs of a patient who is unable to breathe sufficiently.
- Hypernym: respirator
- (figurative) Some behaviour or happening that relieves a tense atmosphere or situation.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Act of Parliament”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 188:
- A lover's quarrel is made up of jealousies, doubts, hopes, fears, and all sorts of fantastic fancies: a matrimonial dispute, on the contrary, is composed of familiar and ordinary matter, a sort of ventilator to the temper!
- (obsolete, slang) A play or an actor so bad as to empty the theater.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
device that circulates fresh air and expels stale or noxious air
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medicine: machine to help breathing
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References edit
- Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1897) A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant
Danish edit
Noun edit
ventilator c (singular definite ventilatoren, plural indefinite ventilatorer)
- fan, ventilator (device that circulates fresh air)
Declension edit
Declension of ventilator
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | ventilator | ventilatoren | ventilatorer | ventilatorerne |
genitive | ventilators | ventilatorens | ventilatorers | ventilatorernes |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
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Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ventilator m (plural ventilatoren or ventilators, diminutive ventilatortje n)
- fan, ventilator (device that circulates fresh air)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From ventilō (“to expose to a draught”) + -tor.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯en.tiˈlaː.tor/, [u̯ɛn̪t̪ɪˈɫ̪äːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ven.tiˈla.tor/, [ven̪t̪iˈläːt̪or]
Noun edit
ventilātor m (genitive ventilātōris); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | ventilātor | ventilātōrēs |
Genitive | ventilātōris | ventilātōrum |
Dative | ventilātōrī | ventilātōribus |
Accusative | ventilātōrem | ventilātōrēs |
Ablative | ventilātōre | ventilātōribus |
Vocative | ventilātor | ventilātōrēs |
Descendants edit
- → Catalan: ventilador
- → Dutch: ventilator
- → English: ventilator
- → French: ventilateur
- → Portuguese: ventilador
- → Romanian: ventilator
- → Russian: вентиля́тор (ventiljátor)
- → Serbo-Croatian: ventìlātor/вентѝла̄тор
- → Spanish: ventilador
Verb edit
ventilātor
References edit
- “ventilator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Occitan edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Gascon) (file)
Noun edit
ventilator m (plural ventilators) (Limousin)
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French ventilateur. Equivalent to ventila + -tor.
Noun edit
ventilator n (plural ventilatoare)
Declension edit
Declension of ventilator
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) ventilator | ventilatorul | (niște) ventilatoare | ventilatoarele |
genitive/dative | (unui) ventilator | ventilatorului | (unor) ventilatoare | ventilatoarelor |
vocative | ventilatorule | ventilatoarelor |
See also edit
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
From ventilírati.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ventìlātor m (Cyrillic spelling вентѝла̄тор)
Declension edit
Declension of ventilator
singular | plural | |
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nominative | ventilator | ventilatori |
genitive | ventilatora | ventilatora |
dative | ventilatoru | ventilatorima |
accusative | ventilator | ventilatore |
vocative | ventilatoru / ventilatore | ventilatori |
locative | ventilatoru | ventilatorima |
instrumental | ventilatorom | ventilatorima |
References edit
- “ventilator” in Hrvatski jezični portal