separator

English

Etymology

separate +‎ -or

Noun

separator (plural separators)

1. An object located between two or more things and hence separating them.
2. A device for removing one substance from another, such as cream from milk.
3. An agent performing the action of separating.

Translations

an object located between two or more things and hence separates them

• Afrikaans: verdeler
• Finnish: erotin

• Hungarian: szétválasztó, elválasztó (hu)
• Romanian: separator (ro) n

device for removing one substance from another

• Finnish: erotin; separaattori (fi)
• Norman: machinne à s'pather

• Romanian: separator (ro) n

agent performing the action of separating

• Hungarian: szétválasztó, elválasztó (hu)

• Romanian: separator (ro) n

Anagrams

• sea parrot, sea-parrot

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Latin

Verb

sēparātor

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

References

• separator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• separator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette