opérateur

See also: Operateur

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin operātōrem. Cf. also ouvreur (“worker in glassmaking or papermaking”), possibly an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.pe.ʁa.tœʁ/

• Audio:

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Noun

opérateur m (plural opérateurs, feminine opératrice)

1. operator (someone who operates)
2. (mathematics) operator

Related terms

• opérer

Descendants

• → Hungarian: operatőr
• → Norwegian Bokmål: operatør
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: operatør
• → Polish: operator
• → Swedish: operatör
• → Ottoman Turkish: اوپراتور (operatör)
  • → Turkish: operatör

Further reading

• “opérateur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.