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English[edit]
Human computers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1955).
An electronic computer (circa early 1980s).
Etymology[edit]
From compute + -er. Doublet of cantore, counter, and kontor.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /kəmˈpjuːtə/
Audio (UK) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /kəmˈpjutɚ/, [kəmˈpʰjuɾɚ]
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: com‧put‧er
- Rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)
Noun[edit]
computer (plural computers)
- (now rare, chiefly historical) A person employed to perform computations; one who computes. [from 17th c.]
- 1613, Richard Brathwait, The Yong Mans Gleanings[1], page 1:
- I haue read the truest computer of Times, and the best Arithmetician that euer breathed, and he reduceth thy dayes into a short number: The daies of Man are threescore and ten.
- 1674, “To the Guardian-Angel”, in Reflexions upon the Devotions of the Roman Church, London: Richard Royston, page 419:
- By which manner of ſpeaking, this Propheteſs, who is ſo exact a Computer, would have us, I ſuppoſe, to conclude, that it would be a great miſtake to think that the number of Angels was either 9, or 11 for one of Men.
- 1927, J. B. S. Haldane, Possible Worlds and Other Essays[2], London: Chatto & Windus, page 173:
- Only a few years ago Mr. Powers, an American computer, disproved a hypothesis about prime numbers which had held the field for more than 250 years.
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 116:
- One Harvard computer, Annie Jump Cannon, used her repetitive acquaintance with the stars to devise a system of stellar classifications so practical that it is still in use today.
- Hyponym: computress
- (by restriction, chiefly historical) A male computer, where the female computer is called a computress.
- A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially, a small one for personal or home use employed for manipulating text or graphics, accessing the Internet, or playing games or media. [from 20th c.]
- Synonyms: processor, (informal) 'puter, (slang) box, machine, calculator; see also Thesaurus:computer
- Hyponyms: desktop, laptop, portable computer, stored-program computer
- I spend around 6 hours a day at the computer.
- As well as saving the photos on my computer, I have them backed up on a USB drive.
- David is a computer expert.
- Janet works at the computer store.
Quotations[edit]
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:computer.
Derived terms[edit]
- analog computer
- appliance computer
- briefcase computer
- classical computer
- computer-aided design
- computer architecture
- computerate
- computer-based
- computer-based teaching
- computer chess
- computer chip
- computer code
- computer conferencing
- computer core
- computer dating
- computer engineering
- computerese
- computer game
- computer graphics
- computerise
- computerism
- computerize
- computer lab
- computer language
- computerlike
- computer literacy
- computer-literate
- computer literate
- computer model
- computer network
- computer person
- computer processor
- computer program
- computer programme
- computer programming
- computer says no
- computer science
- computer scientist
- computer security
- computer shop
- computer simulation
- computer system
- computer technician
- computer typesetting
- computer virus
- computer vision
- computer vision syndrome
- computress
- desktop computer
- digital computer
- dive computer
- domino computer
- electromechanical computer
- electro-mechanical computer
- home computer
- human-computer interaction
- hybrid computer
- laptop computer
- microcomputer
- minicomputer
- notebook computer
- personal computer
- pocket computer
- quantum computer
- supercomputer
- tablet computer
- ternary computer
- wearable computer
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Descendants
- → Albanian: kompjuter
- → Amharic: ኮምፒዩተር (kompiyutär)
- → Arabic: كَمْبْيُوتَر (kambyūtar)
- → Azerbaijani: kompüter
- → Belarusian: камп'ю́тар (kampʺjútar), кампу́тар (kampútar), камп'ю́тэр (kampʺjúter)
- → Bengali: কম্পিউটাৰ (kômpiuṭaৰ)
- → Bulgarian: компю́тър (kompjútǎr)
- → Burmese: ကွန်ပျူတာ (kwanpyuta)
- → Danish: computer
- → Dutch: computer
- → Estonian: kompuuter
- → Georgian: კომპიუტერი (ḳomṗiuṭeri)
- → German: Computer
- → Greek: κομπιούτερ (kompioúter)
- → Hindi: कंप्यूटर (kampyūṭar)
- → Indonesian: komputer
- → Italian: computer
- → Japanese: コンピューター (konpyūtā)
- → Khmer: កុំព្យូទ័រ (kompyuutɔə)
- → Korean: 컴퓨터 (keompyuteo)
- → Kyrgyz: компьютер (kompʹyuter)
- → Lao: ຄອມພິວເຕີ (khǭm phiu tœ̄)
- → Latvian: kompjūters
- → Lithuanian: kompiuteris
- → Luxembourgish: Computer
- → Macedonian: компју́тер (kompjúter)
- → Malay: komputer
- → Malayalam: കമ്പ്യൂട്ടർ (kampyūṭṭaṟ)
- → Maltese: kompjuter
- → Northern Kurdish: kompûter
- → Oriya: କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟର (kômpyuṭôrô)
- → Persian: کامپیوتر (kâmpyutar)
- → Pitcairn-Norfolk: kompyuuta
- → Polish: komputer
- → Romanian: computer
- → Romansch: computer
- → Russian: компью́тер (kompʹjúter)
- → Rusyn: компю́тер (kompjúter)
- → Scottish Gaelic: coimpiutair
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Swahili: kompyuta
- → Tagalog: kompyuter
- → Tajik: компютер (kompyuter), компутар (komputar)
- → Telugu: కంప్యూటర్ (kampyūṭar)
- → Thai: คอมพิวเตอร์ (kɔm-piu-dtə̂ə)
- → Tok Pisin: kompyuta
- → Turkmen: kompýuter
- → Ukrainian: комп'ю́тер (kompʺjúter)
- → Urdu: کمپیوٹر (kampyūṭar)
- → Uyghur: كومپيۇتېر (kompyutër)
- → Xhosa: ikhompyutha
- → Yakut: көмпүүтэр (kömpüüter)
- → Yiddish: קאָמפּיוטער (kompyuter)
- → Zulu: ikhompyutha
Translations[edit]
device
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person
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See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
computer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
computer on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Danish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English computer.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
computer c (singular definite computeren, plural indefinite computere)
- computer (machine)
Declension[edit]
Declension of computer
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | computer | computeren | computere | computerne |
genitive | computers | computerens | computeres | computernes |
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Borrowed from English computer.
Noun[edit]
computer m (plural computers, diminutive computertje n)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Trió: konpëjutë
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
computer
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin computō, computāre (“to compute, sum up”). See also the doublets compter and conter.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.py.te/
Audio (file) - Homophones: computai, computé, computée, computées, computés, computez
Verb[edit]
computer
- (archaic, rare) to compute
- 1802, François-René de Chateaubriand, Génie du christianisme
- Quant aux ères, ici on compte par l'année de la création, là par olympiade, par la fondation de Rome, par la naissance de Jésus-Christ, par l'époque d'Eusèbe, par celle des Séleucides, celle de Nabonassar, celle des martyrs. Les Turcs ont leur hégire, les Persans leur yezdegerdic. On compute encore par les éres julienne, grégorienne, ibérienne et actienne.
- As the eras, here they compute by the year of the creation, there by olympiads, by the foundation of Rome, by the birth of Christ, by the epoch of Eusebius, by that of Seleucids, of Nabonassar, of the Martyrs. The Turks have their hegira, the Persians their yezdegerdie. The Julian, Gregorian, Iberian and Actian eras, are also employed in computation.
- 1802, François-René de Chateaubriand, Génie du christianisme
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of computer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | computer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | computant /kɔ̃.py.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | computé /kɔ̃.py.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | compute /kɔ̃.pyt/ |
computes /kɔ̃.pyt/ |
compute /kɔ̃.pyt/ |
computons /kɔ̃.py.tɔ̃/ |
computez /kɔ̃.py.te/ |
computent /kɔ̃.pyt/ |
imperfect | computais /kɔ̃.py.tɛ/ |
computais /kɔ̃.py.tɛ/ |
computait /kɔ̃.py.tɛ/ |
computions /kɔ̃.py.tjɔ̃/ |
computiez /kɔ̃.py.tje/ |
computaient /kɔ̃.py.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | computai /kɔ̃.py.te/ |
computas /kɔ̃.py.ta/ |
computa /kɔ̃.py.ta/ |
computâmes /kɔ̃.py.tam/ |
computâtes /kɔ̃.py.tat/ |
computèrent /kɔ̃.py.tɛʁ/ | |
future | computerai /kɔ̃.py.tʁe/ |
computeras /kɔ̃.py.tʁa/ |
computera /kɔ̃.py.tʁa/ |
computerons /kɔ̃.py.tʁɔ̃/ |
computerez /kɔ̃.py.tʁe/ |
computeront /kɔ̃.py.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | computerais /kɔ̃.py.tʁɛ/ |
computerais /kɔ̃.py.tʁɛ/ |
computerait /kɔ̃.py.tʁɛ/ |
computerions /kɔ̃.py.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
computeriez /kɔ̃.py.tə.ʁje/ |
computeraient /kɔ̃.py.tʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | compute /kɔ̃.pyt/ |
computes /kɔ̃.pyt/ |
compute /kɔ̃.pyt/ |
computions /kɔ̃.py.tjɔ̃/ |
computiez /kɔ̃.py.tje/ |
computent /kɔ̃.pyt/ |
imperfect2 | computasse /kɔ̃.py.tas/ |
computasses /kɔ̃.py.tas/ |
computât /kɔ̃.py.ta/ |
computassions /kɔ̃.py.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
computassiez /kɔ̃.py.ta.sje/ |
computassent /kɔ̃.py.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | compute /kɔ̃.pyt/ |
— | computons /kɔ̃.py.tɔ̃/ |
computez /kɔ̃.py.te/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “computer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams[edit]
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English computer.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
computer m (invariable)
- computer (calculating device)
- Synonyms: calcolatore, elaboratore
References[edit]
- ^ computer in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
computer
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English computer.
Noun[edit]
computer n (plural computere)
- computer
- Synonyms: calculator, ordinator
Declension[edit]
Declension of computer
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) computer | computerul | (niște) computere | computerele |
genitive/dative | (unui) computer | computerului | (unor) computere | computerelor |
vocative | computerule | computerelor |
Related terms[edit]
Romansch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English computer.
Noun[edit]
computer m (plural computers)
- computer
- Synonym: calculater
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