ascensor

Asturian

Noun

ascensor m (plural ascensores)

1. lift, elevator

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Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ascensor m (plural ascensors)

1. elevator, lift

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Galician

Noun

ascensor m (plural ascensores)

1. lift, elevator

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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. A person who ascends
2. rider, charioteer (person who mounts a horse or rides a chariot)

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

• French: ascenseur

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.

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Portuguese

Noun

ascensor m (plural es)

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

Synonyms

• elevador

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Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ascensor m (plural ascensores)

1. (Not used in Mexico) elevator, lift

Synonyms

• elevador (Mexico, also sometimes in El Salvador)

Related terms

• ascender