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”).

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

Anagrams

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

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) stātor

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

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