modulator

See also: Modulator

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *med-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Italic *medos

Latin modus

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -ulus

Latin modulus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -or, -ārī

Latin modulor

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Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -ātuslbor.

English -ate

English modulate

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Latin -ātor

Old French -eorbor.

Middle English -our

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Latin -torlbor.

English -or

English modulator

From modulate + -or.

Pronunciation

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Noun

modulator (plural modulators)

1. A person who modulates.

   Coordinate terms: regulator, mediator, arbitrator

2. A device or thing that modulates.

   Coordinate terms: regulator, attenuator, governor, synchronizer

   • 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English:

     [Poetry] is a most musicall Modulator of all Intelligibles by her inventive Variations, undulling their Grossenesse, and subliming it into more refined Acceptablenesse to our own, or others understandings.

3. (music) A chart in the tonic sol-fa notation on which the modulations or changes from one scale to another are shown by the relative position of the notes.

Derived terms

• biomodulator
• comodulator
• cryomodulator
• immunomodulator
• myomodulator
• neuromodulator
• oncomodulator
• phase modulator
• pulse modulator
• radiomodulator
• selective androgen receptor modulator
• vasomodulator

Related terms

• modulation

Translations

device that modulates

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 調制器 / 调制器 (zh), 調製器 / 调制器 (zh) (tiáozhìqì)

• Finnish: modulaattori
• French: modulateur (fr) m
• German: Modulator m
• Italian: modulatore (it) m
• Japanese: 変調器 (へんちょうき, henchōki)
• Polish: modulator (pl) m
• Russian: модуля́тор (ru) m (moduljátor)
• Welsh: trosiadur m

Latin

Verb

modulātor

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of modulor

References

• “modulator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “modulator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "modulator", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “modulator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French modulateur. By surface analysis, modula +‎ -tor.

Noun

modulator n (plural modulatori)

1. modulator

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	modulator	modulatorul	modulatori	modulatorile
genitive-dative	modulator	modulatorului	modulatori	modulatorilor
vocative	modulatorule		modulatorilor