fabricator

English

Etymology

fabricate +‎ -or

Noun

fabricator (plural fabricators)

1. A person who fabricates or manufactures something; a manufacturer
2. A person who makes a fabrication of something; a counterfeiter or falsifier

Coordinate terms

• builder
• maker

 

Translations

person who fabricates or manufactures

• French: fabricant (fr) m, fabricante (fr) f
• Latin: fabricātor m

counterfeiter or falsifier

• French: fabricateur (fr) m, fabricatrice (fr) f

Latin

Etymology

From fābricor +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /faː.briˈkaː.tor/, [fäːbrɪˈkäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fa.briˈka.tor/, [fäbriˈkäːt̪or]

Noun

fābricātor m (genitive fābricātōris, feminine fābricātrīx); third declension

1. builder, maker

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fābricātor	fābricātōrēs
Genitive	fābricātōris	fābricātōrum
Dative	fābricātōrī	fābricātōribus
Accusative	fābricātōrem	fābricātōrēs
Ablative	fābricātōre	fābricātōribus
Vocative	fābricātor	fābricātōrēs

Verb

fabricātor

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

References

• “fabricator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fabricator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fabricator 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)
• fabricator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) God is the Creator of the world: deus est mundi procreator (not creator), aedificator, fabricator, opifex rerum
    

Romanian

Etymology

From fabrica +‎ -tor.

Adjective

fabricator m or n (feminine singular fabricatoare, masculine plural fabricatori, feminine and neuter plural fabricatoare)

1. manufacturing

Declension

Declension of fabricator

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	fabricator		fabricatoare	fabricatori	fabricatoare
	definite	fabricatorul		fabricatoarea	fabricatorii	fabricatoarele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	fabricator		fabricatoare	fabricatori	fabricatoare
	definite	fabricatorului		fabricatoarei	fabricatorilor	fabricatoarelor

References

• fabricator in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN