dilatator

English

Etymology

From Latin dilatator (“propagator”), from dilato (“I spread out”).

Noun

dilatator (plural dilatators)

1. (anatomy) A muscle that dilates any part; a dilator.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dilatator in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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Latin

Verb

dīlātātor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of dīlātō
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of dīlātō

References

• dilatator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dilatator” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)