scanner

See also: Scanner

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English scan

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English scanner

From scan + -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈskænɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈskænə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ænə(ɹ)

Noun

scanner (plural scanners)

1. One who scans. [from 16th c.]
   • 1997, Douglas Robillard, Melville and the Visual Arts: Ionian Form, Venetian Tint, page 17:

     It is, perhaps, too much to assume that an elderly Melville read James, but he was an eager scanner of magazines and did read fiction in his later years.

2. A device which scans documents in order to convert them to a digital medium. [from 20th c.]

   He put the picture in the scanner, then e-mailed a copy of it to his family.

3. A device which scans barcodes or QR codes for the purpose of charging a customer, performing a price check or enquiry, printing a price label or sticker, checking an item in or out of the store or warehouse, or finding an item ordered through click and collect and its corresponding location; a pricing gun or HHT.
4. A radio receiver which iterates through a sequence of frequencies to detect signal.
5. A device which uses radiation (ultrasound, X-ray, etc.) to generate images of tissue or surfaces for diagnostic purposes.
   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:

     Chorban: I'm using a small scanner to gather readings on the keepers.
     Chorban: So far, I've had mixed results. I find it difficult to get near the creatures.

6. A device which uses optics to detect printed data (such as a barcode).

Derived terms

• 3D scanner
• baggage scanner
• barcode scanner
• brain scanner
• CAT scanner
• chip scanner
• chromatoscanner
• full-body scanner
• full body scanner
• galvoscanner
• interscanner
• intrascanner
• medscanner
• microscanner
• millimeter wave scanner
• mobile scanner picking
• photoscanner
• piezoscanner
• police scanner
• portscanner
• radiochromatoscanner
• scanography
• slide scanner
• telescanner
• X-ray scanner

Descendants

Descendants

• → Armenian: սկաներ (skaner)
• → Catalan: escàner
• → Czech: skener
• → Dutch: scanner
• → Greek: σκάνερ (skáner)
• → Finnish: skanneri
• → French: scanneur
• → German: Scanner
• → Hungarian: szkenner
• → Japanese: スキャナー (sukyanā), スキャナ (sukyana)
• → Korean: 스캐너 (seukaeneo)
• → Portuguese: escâner, scâner (Portugal), scanner, scaner (uncommon), scanner
• → Russian: ска́нер (skáner)
• → Serbo-Croatian: skener / скенер
• → Spanish: escáner, scanner

Translations

device which scans documents

• Arabic: مَاسِح m (māsiḥ), مَاسِح ضَوئِيّ m
• Armenian: սկաներ (hy) (skaner)
• Belarusian: ска́нар m (skánar)
• Bulgarian: ске́нер (bg) m (skéner)
• Catalan: escàner (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 掃描器 / 扫描器 (zh) (sǎomiáoqì)

• Czech: skener (cs) m
• Dutch: scanner (nl)
• Esperanto: skanilo
• Estonian: skanner (et)
• Finnish: skanneri (fi), kuvanlukija (fi)
• French: scanneur (fr), scanner (fr) m, numériseur (fr) m
• German: Scanner (de) m, Abtaster m
• Greek: σαρωτής (el) m (sarotís)
• Hungarian: szkenner (hu), lapolvasó (hu)
• Icelandic: skanni m
• Indonesian: pemindai (id)
• Italian: lettore ottico (it) m, scanner (it) m, scansionatore (it) m, scanditore (it) m, scansore (it) m, scannerizzatore (it) m
• Japanese: スキャナー (ja) (sukyanā), スキャナ (ja) (sukyana)
• Kazakh: мәтіналғы (mätınalğy), сканер (skaner)
• Korean: 스캐너 (seukaeneo)
• Latin: sarotis f
• Malay: pengimbas (ms)
• Maltese: skener m, skaner m
• Māori: pūmatawai, pūkarapa
• Norman: scanneu m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skanner m

  Nynorsk: skannar m

• Polish: skaner (pl) m
• Portuguese: escâner (pt) m (Brazil), scâner (pt) m (Portugal), digitalizador (pt) m
• Romanian: scaner (ro) n
• Russian: ска́нер (ru) m (skáner)
• Serbo-Croatian: skener (sh) m
• Slovene: skener m, optični bralnik m
• Spanish: escáner (es) m
• Swedish: bildläsare (sv) c, skanner (sv) c
• Turkish: tarayıcı (tr)
• Ukrainian: ска́нер m (skáner)

radio receiver

• Dutch: scanner (nl)
• Finnish: skannaava radio
• Greek: ανιχνευτής (el) m (anichneftís)
• Japanese: 広帯域受信機 (kōtaiiki jushinki)
• Polish: skaner (pl) m

device that uses radiation to produce images

• Catalan: escàner (ca) m
• Finnish: skanneri (fi)
• Japanese: 断層撮影装置 (dansō satsuei sōchi)
• Polish: skaner (pl) m
• Romanian: scaner (ro)
• Russian: ска́нер (ru) m (skáner)

optical device

• Catalan: escàner (ca) m
• Dutch: scanner (nl)
• Finnish: skanneri (fi)
• Greek: οπτικός σαρωτής m (optikós sarotís)
• Japanese: 読み取り装置 (yomitori sōchi)
• Macedonian: оптички читач m (optički čitač), скенер m (skener)
• Polish: skaner (pl) m
• Romanian: scaner (ro), aparat scaner
• Russian: ска́нер (ru) m (skáner)
• Slovene: optični bralnik m

one who scans

• Catalan: escanista m
• Estonian: skaneerija
• Finnish: skannaaja
• Greek: σαρωτής (el) m (sarotís), ανιχνευτής (el) m (anichneftís)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} module de balayage m
• German: ^{(please verify)} Abtaster, ^{(please verify)} Blattabtaster, ^{(please verify)} Scanner (de) m
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} dispositivo d'esplorazione m
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} skener (sh) m
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} explorador (es) m

Anagrams

• canners

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English scanner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskɛ.nər/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: scan‧ner
• Rhymes: -ɛnər

Noun

scanner m (plural scanners, diminutive scannertje n)

1. scanner (scanning device)

French

Etymology 1

Adapted borrowing of English scan +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ska.ne/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Somain)):

  (file)

Verb

scanner

1. to scan (to create a digital copy of an image using a scanner)

Conjugation

Conjugation of scanner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	scanner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	scannant /ska.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		scanné /ska.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	scanne /skan/	scannes /skan/	scanne /skan/	scannons /ska.nɔ̃/	scannez /ska.ne/	scannent /skan/
	imperfect	scannais /ska.nɛ/	scannais /ska.nɛ/	scannait /ska.nɛ/	scannions /ska.njɔ̃/	scanniez /ska.nje/	scannaient /ska.nɛ/
	past historic2	scannai /ska.ne/	scannas /ska.na/	scanna /ska.na/	scannâmes /ska.nam/	scannâtes /ska.nat/	scannèrent /ska.nɛʁ/
	future	scannerai /skan.ʁe/	scanneras /skan.ʁa/	scannera /skan.ʁa/	scannerons /skan.ʁɔ̃/	scannerez /skan.ʁe/	scanneront /skan.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	scannerais /skan.ʁɛ/	scannerais /skan.ʁɛ/	scannerait /skan.ʁɛ/	scannerions /ska.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	scanneriez /ska.nə.ʁje/	scanneraient /skan.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	scanne /skan/	scannes /skan/	scanne /skan/	scannions /ska.njɔ̃/	scanniez /ska.nje/	scannent /skan/
	imperfect2	scannasse /ska.nas/	scannasses /ska.nas/	scannât /ska.na/	scannassions /ska.na.sjɔ̃/	scannassiez /ska.na.sje/	scannassent /ska.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	scanne /skan/	—	scannons /ska.nɔ̃/	scannez /ska.ne/	—
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).

Related terms

• scanneur
• scantrad

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English scanner. Doublet of scanneur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ska.nɛʁ/

• Audio (France (Strasbourg)):

  (file)

Noun

scanner m (plural scanners) (medicine)

1. an X-ray scanner

Further reading

• “scanner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English scanner.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

scanner m (invariable)

1. (computing) scanner

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English scan +‎ -er.

Verb

scanner (gerund scann'nie)

1. (Jersey, computing, etc.) to scan

Derived terms

• scanneu (“scanner”)

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

English scan

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English scannerubor.

Portuguese scanner

Unadapted borrowing from English scanner.

Noun

scanner m (plural scanners)

1. alternative form of escâner
2. alternative form of scâner

Further reading

• “scanner”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “scanner”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈkaneɾ/ [esˈka.neɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aneɾ
• IPA^(key): /ˈskaneɾ/ [ˈska.neɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aneɾ
• Syllabification: scan‧ner

Noun

scanner m (plural scanners)

1. alternative spelling of escáner

Further reading

• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “scanner”, in Diccionario del español actual (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA

Swedish

Alternative forms

• skanner

Noun

scanner c

1. a scanner (e.g. a document scanner or barcode reader)

   Synonym: bildläsare

Declension

Declension of scanner

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	scanner	scanners
	definite	scannern	scannerns
plural	indefinite	scannrar	scannrars
	definite	scannrarna	scannrarnas

Related terms

• scanna (“to scan”)
• scanning

References

• “scanner”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “scanner”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)