ascensor

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin ascēnsor.

Noun

ascensor m (plural ascensores)

1. lift, elevator

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ascēnsōrem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.sənˈso]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.senˈsoɾ]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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Noun

ascensor m (plural ascensors)

1. elevator, lift

Further reading

• “ascensor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ascensor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “ascensor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ascensor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ascēnsōrem.

Noun

ascensor m (plural ascensores)

1. lift, elevator

Further reading

• “ascensor”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

Latin

Etymology

ad- (“(up) to”) +‎ scandō (“climb”) +‎ -tor (agentive suffix)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /asˈken.sor/, [äs̠ˈkẽːs̠ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aʃˈʃen.sor/, [äʃˈʃɛnsor]

Noun

ascēnsor m (genitive ascēnsōris); third declension

1. one who ascends
2. rider, charioteer (person who mounts a horse or rides a chariot)
3. (New Latin) lift, elevator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ascēnsor	ascēnsōrēs
Genitive	ascēnsōris	ascēnsōrum
Dative	ascēnsōrī	ascēnsōribus
Accusative	ascēnsōrem	ascēnsōrēs
Ablative	ascēnsōre	ascēnsōribus
Vocative	ascēnsor	ascēnsōrēs

Descendants

• → Asturian: ascensor
• → Catalan: ascensor
• → French: ascenseur
• → Galician: ascensor
• → Italian: ascensore
• → Portuguese: ascensor
• → Romanian: ascensor
• → Spanish: ascensor

References

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ascēnsōrem.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.sẽˈsoʁ/ [a.sẽˈsoh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.sẽˈsoʁ/ [a.sẽˈsoh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /a.sẽˈsoɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /a.sẽˈsoʁ/ [a.sẽˈsoχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.sẽˈsoɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /ɐʃ.sẽˈsoɾ/, /ɐ.sẽˈsoɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /ɐʃ.sẽˈsoɾ/, /ɐ.sẽˈsoɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /ɐʃ.sẽˈso.ɾi/, /ɐ.sẽˈso.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: as‧cen‧sor

Noun

ascensor m (plural ascensores)

1. lift (mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people)

   Synonym: elevador

Further reading

• “ascensor” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French ascenseur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /as.t͡ʃenˈsor/

• Audio:

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Noun

ascensor n (plural ascensoare)

1. elevator, lift

   Synonym: lift

Declension

Declension of ascensor

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) ascensor	ascensorul	(niște) ascensoare	ascensoarele
genitive/dative	(unui) ascensor	ascensorului	(unor) ascensoare	ascensoarelor
vocative	ascensorule		ascensoarelor

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ascēnsor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /asθenˈsoɾ/ [as.θẽnˈsoɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /asenˈsoɾ/ [a.sẽnˈsoɾ]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: as‧cen‧sor

Noun

ascensor m (plural ascensores)

1. (not used in Mexico) elevator, lift

   Synonym: (Mexico, also sometimes in El Salvador) elevador

Derived terms

• ascensorista

 

Related terms

• ascender

 

Further reading

• “ascensor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014