stator

English

Etymology

From stationary or static by analogy with rotor; alternatively from a hypothetical Latin stātor (literally “stander”); all ultimately from stāre (“to stand”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

stator (plural stators)

1. The stationary part of a motor or other machine.

Related terms

• rotor

Translations

stationary part of a motor

• Basque: estatore (eu)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 定子 (zh) (dìngzǐ)

• Finnish: staattori (fi), seisoja (fi)
• Greek: στάτης (el) m (státis)
• Macedonian: ста́тор m (státor)
• Polish: stojan (pl)
• Portuguese: estator (pt) m
• Spanish: estátor m, estator m, státor m
• Tagalog: patigil

Anagrams

• Rattos, Tatros, ottars, rottas, strato-, tarots, tators, tortas, troats

French

Noun

stator m (plural stators)

1. stator

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

stō (“to stand”) +‎ -tor

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsta.tor/, [ˈs̠t̪ät̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsta.tor/, [ˈst̪äːt̪or]

Noun

stator m (genitive statōris); third declension

1. an attendant or servant to a magistrate or proconsul; a messenger, orderly

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	stator	statōrēs
Genitive	statōris	statōrum
Dative	statōrī	statōribus
Accusative	statōrem	statōrēs
Ablative	statōre	statōribus
Vocative	stator	statōrēs

References

• “stator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “stator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “stator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “stator”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “stator”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin