propagator

English

Etymology

propagate +‎ -or

Noun

propagator (plural propagators)

1. A person who disseminates news or rumour
2. A person who propagates plants
3. A covered, sometimes heated container for germinating seeds or raising seedlings
4. (physics) A function that represents the quantum propagation of a subatomic particle

Translations

person who disseminates news or rumour

• Finnish: propagoija (fi)
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person who propagates plants

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container for germinating seeds or raising seedlings

• Finnish: idätysastia, idättämö
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physics: function

• Finnish: propagaattori
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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) prōpāgātor

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

References

• “propagator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “propagator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• propagator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.