lavador
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See also: Lavador
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Portuguese lavador (“washer”).
Noun[edit]
lavador (plural lavadors)
- a machine used in mining placer deposits, which washes paydirt slurries pumped into the top of machine, extracting pebbled ores though its sluice runs into its riffles, grates and miner's moss, a type of washplant
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Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From lavar + -dor, or from Latin lavātōrem. Compare Spanish lavador, Italian lavatore, French laveur.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: la‧va‧dor
Noun[edit]
lavador m (plural lavadores, feminine lavadora, feminine plural lavadoras)
- washer (someone or something that washes)
Related terms[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From lavar + -dor, or Latin lavatōrem. Compare Portuguese lavador, Italian lavatore, French laveur.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
lavador m (plural lavadores, feminine lavadora, feminine plural lavadoras)
- washer (someone or something that washes)
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “lavador”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- English terms borrowed from Portuguese
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- English nouns
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- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese 4-syllable words
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Spanish terms suffixed with -dor
- Spanish terms inherited from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/oɾ
- Rhymes:Spanish/oɾ/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns