automaton
See also: aŭtomaton
English
Etymology
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(deprecated template usage) From Ancient Greek αὐτόματον (autómaton), neuter of αὐτόματος (autómatos, “self moving, self willed”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: ô-tŏm'ə-tən, ô-tŏm'ə-tŏn, IPA(key): /ɔːˈtɒmətən/, /ɔːˈtɒməˌtɒn/
- IPA(key): /əˈtɑməˌtɑn/
Audio (US): (file)
Noun
automaton (plural automatons or automata)
- A machine or robot designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 9,
- Nick had heard her play through the very beginning of it a dozen times, until he was screaming at her in his head to go on. Well, now she did, watching her own hands busying up and down the keyboard as if they were astonishing automata that she had wound up and set in motion, in perfect synchrony, to produce this silvery flow of sound.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 9,
- A person who acts like a machine or robot, often defined as having a monotonous lifestyle and lacking in emotion.
- Due to her strict adherence to her daily schedule, Jessica was becoming more and more convinced that she was an automaton.
- Thomas Jefferson
- A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on 'til the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering.
- A formal system, such as finite automaton.
- A toy in the form of a mechanical figure.
- (dated) The self-acting power of the muscular and nervous systems, by which movement is effected without intelligent determination.
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Translations
machine or robot designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions
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person who acts like a machine or robot
formal system
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toy in the form of a mechanical figure
Latin
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Etymology
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(deprecated template usage) Borrowed from Ancient Greek αὐτόματον (autómaton), neuter of αὐτόματος (autómatos, “self-moving, self-willed”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /au̯ˈto.ma.ton/, [äu̯ˈt̪ɔmät̪ɔn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /au̯ˈto.ma.ton/, [äu̯ˈt̪ɔːmät̪on]
Audio (classical): (file)
Noun
automaton n (genitive automatī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | automaton | automata |
Genitive | automatī | automatōrum |
Dative | automatō | automatīs |
Accusative | automaton | automata |
Ablative | automatō | automatīs |
Vocative | automaton | automata |
References
- “autŏmătus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- automaton in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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