identifier

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English identify

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English identifier

From identify + -er.

Pronunciation

Audio (US): (file)

Noun

identifier (plural identifiers)

Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of someone or something.
- 2001, Theodore A. Landers, The Career Guide to the Horse Industry‎^[1]:
  The Identifier personally inspects each horse in each race by verifying the lip tattoo, body color, head and leg markings, scars, and chestnut (night eyes).
- 2004, John McEvoy, Great Horse Racing Mysteries: True Tales from the Track‎^[2]:
  The foal papers are documents recording the horse's registration; no horse can start in any race unless his papers are in the hands of the track's identifier.
- 2007, Paolo Tombesi, Osamu Hirota, Quantum Communication, Computing, and Measurement 3, page 291:
  Here, we would use the anonymous key technique to obtain a quantum identification protocol AKI of the challenge-response type in which the identifier cannot pretend to be the identifiee […]
Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.
- 2008, Ted Dunstone, Neil Yager, Biometric System and Data Analysis:
  Prehistoric artists used hand-prints in cave paintings, perhaps as a 'signature'. They might be considered the earliest example of a biometric identifier.
- 2016 September 1, Ellie Kaufman, “University of Kentucky sues student newspaper over sexual assault case”, in CNN‎^[3]:
  The source stated that the alleged victims wanted the paperwork released after the settlement, but with names and identifiers removed.
One who identifies as a particular type or role; one who says and believes that they are a certain thing.
- 2019, Raina Simone Henderson, The Cost of Identity, page 80:
  While the DOJ and BOJS already calculate data by gender, trans identifiers are not included, it is solely by men and women
A guidebook that helps determine the specific class of an object (such as a mushroom, herb, fish, bird, drug, or mineral), or its individual identity (such as that of a star).
(programming, operating systems) A formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc. or in an operating system to refer to a process, user, group, etc.
(HTML) A code that distinguishes a particular element from all other elements in a document.
(databases) A primary key.

Antonyms

identifiee

Coordinate terms

authenticator (an identifier asserts identity; an authenticator verifies it)

Derived terms

Translations

formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.

Arabic: مُعَرِّف m (muʕarrif)
Belarusian: ідэнтыфіка́тар m (identyfikátar)
Bulgarian: идентифика́тор m (identifikátor)
Catalan: identificador (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 識別碼 / 识别码 (zh) (shìbiémǎ), 標誌符 / 标志符 (biāoshífú), 标识符 (biāozhìfú)
Czech: identifikátor (cs) m
Estonian: tuvasti
Finnish: tunniste (fi)
French: identificateur (fr) m
Georgian: იდენტიფიკატორი (idenṭipiḳaṭori), მაიდენტიფიცირებელი (maidenṭipicirebeli)
German: Identifikator m, Kennzeichen (de) n
Greek: αναγνωριστικό (el) n (anagnoristikó)
Hindi: अभिज्ञापक (hi) m (abhijñāpak)
Hungarian: azonosító (hu)
Interlingua: identificator
Italian: identificatore (it) m
Japanese: 識別子 (ja) (しきべつし, shikibetsushi)
Kazakh: сәйкестендіргіш (säykestendirgiš)
Korean: 식별자(識別子) (sikbyeolja)
Latin: identificātor m
Macedonian: идентифика́тор m (identifikátor)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: identifikator m
Persian: شناسال (šenâsâl)
Polish: identyfikator (pl) m
Portuguese: identificador (pt) m
Russian: идентифика́тор (ru) m (idɛntifikátor)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: идентифѝка̄тор m

Latin: identifìkātor (sh) m
Slovak: identifikátor m
Slovene: identifikator m
Spanish: identificador (es) m
Turkish: tanımlayıcı
Ukrainian: ідентифіка́тор m (identyfikátor)
Vietnamese: định danh (vi), mã nhận dạng, ký hiệu nhận dạng, kí hiệu nhận dạng, mã số (vi)

primary key

Czech: primární klíč m
Finnish: pääavain
French: identifiant (fr) m
Gujarati: ઓળખકર્તા (oḷkhakartā)
Persian: شناسه (fa) (šenâse)
Polish: identyfikator (pl) m
Russian: идентифика́тор (ru) m (idɛntifikátor), перви́чный ключ m (pervíčnyj ključ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: примарни кључ m

Latin: primarni ključ m
Turkish: birincil anahtar

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin identificāre.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /i.dɑ̃.ti.fje/
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Verb

identifier

to identify
to log in

Conjugation

Conjugation of identifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	identifier
present participle or gerund¹	simple	identifiant /i.dɑ̃.ti.fjɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		identifié /i.dɑ̃.ti.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	identifie /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi/	identifies /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi/	identifie /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi/	identifions /i.dɑ̃.ti.fjɔ̃/	identifiez /i.dɑ̃.ti.fje/	identifient /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi/
	imperfect	identifiais /i.dɑ̃.ti.fjɛ/	identifiais /i.dɑ̃.ti.fjɛ/	identifiait /i.dɑ̃.ti.fjɛ/	identifiions /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.jɔ̃/	identifiiez /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.je/	identifiaient /i.dɑ̃.ti.fjɛ/
	past historic²	identifiai /i.dɑ̃.ti.fje/	identifias /i.dɑ̃.ti.fja/	identifia /i.dɑ̃.ti.fja/	identifiâmes /i.dɑ̃.ti.fjam/	identifiâtes /i.dɑ̃.ti.fjat/	identifièrent /i.dɑ̃.ti.fjɛʁ/
	future	identifierai /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁe/	identifieras /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁa/	identifiera /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁa/	identifierons /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁɔ̃/	identifierez /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁe/	identifieront /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	identifierais /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁɛ/	identifierais /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁɛ/	identifierait /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁɛ/	identifierions /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	identifieriez /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁje/	identifieraient /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁɛ/
(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	identifie /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi/	identifies /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi/	identifie /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi/	identifiions /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.jɔ̃/	identifiiez /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.je/	identifient /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	identifiasse /i.dɑ̃.ti.fjas/	identifiasses /i.dɑ̃.ti.fjas/	identifiât /i.dɑ̃.ti.fja/	identifiassions /i.dɑ̃.ti.fja.sjɔ̃/	identifiassiez /i.dɑ̃.ti.fja.sje/	identifiassent /i.dɑ̃.ti.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	identifie /i.dɑ̃.ti.fi/	—	identifions /i.dɑ̃.ti.fjɔ̃/	identifiez /i.dɑ̃.ti.fje/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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