adaptator

See also: Adaptator

English

Noun

adaptator (plural adaptators)

1. (rare) Synonym of adapter.
   • 1842 August, Edward Mayhew, “The English Stage, Showing the Cause of Its Excellence, the Reason of Its Decline, and the Source from Which It Will Be Revived”, in The Monthly Magazine, volume XCVI, number DXLVIII, London, page 189:

     Yet it was an improvement on the stage plays of the former age, when tragedies and comedies were imported from France with an avidity not to be exceeded by the minor adaptators of the present time.

   • 1981, Jacques Barchilon, Peter Flinders, “Last Years and Last Works”, in Charles Perrault (Twayne’s World Authors Series; 639), Boston, Mass.: Twayne Publishers, G. K. Hall & Co., →ISBN, page 151:

     [Gabriel] Faerno was one of the many translator-imitators, or rather adaptators, of Aesop and Phaedrus, antedating [Jean de] La Fontaine by one hundred years.

   • 2007, Amy Scott-Douglass, “[Theater] Introduction, ‘Dramatic Shakespeare: Stars and Spin-offs’”, in Richard Burt, editor, Shakespeares after Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture, volume 2, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 739, column 2:

     This trend in King Lear revisions is representative of a general tendency when it comes to [William] Shakespeare spin-offs: namely, that adaptators of Shakespeare often see it as their particular mission to give voice to the characters in Shakespeare who are mistreated, misunderstood, or just plain missing.

Latin

Verb

adaptātor

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

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Adaptator. By surface analysis, adaptować +‎ -ator. First attested in 1878.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.dapˈta.tɔr/
• Rhymes: -atɔr
• Syllabification: a‧dap‧ta‧tor

Noun

adaptator m pers (female equivalent adaptatorka)

1. adapter (person who adapts something to better suit an environment)
2. (art) adapter (person who adapts a work of art)

Declension

Declension of adaptator

	singular	plural
nominative	adaptator	adaptatorzy/adaptatory (deprecative)
genitive	adaptatora	adaptatorów
dative	adaptatorowi	adaptatorom
accusative	adaptatora	adaptatorów
instrumental	adaptatorem	adaptatorami
locative	adaptatorze	adaptatorach
vocative	adaptatorze	adaptatorzy

Derived terms

adjective

• adaptatorski

 

Related terms

adjective

• adaptatorski

 

Related terms

adjectives

• adaptabilny
• adaptacyjny
• adaptatywny
• adapterowy
• adaptogenny
• adaptowalny

 

adverbs

• adaptacyjnie
• adaptatywnie

 

nouns

• adapciak
• adaptabilność
• adaptacja
• adaptacjonizm
• adaptacyjność
• adaptatywność
• adapter
• adapterek
• adaptogen
• adaptometr
• adaptowalność

 

verbs

• adaptować impf, zaadaptować pf

 

Further reading

• adaptator in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• adaptator in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• adaptator in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego