ventilator
English
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Etymology
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From ventilate + -or; cf. Latin ventilator.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ventilator (plural ventilators)
- A device that circulates fresh air and expels stale or noxious air.
- (medicine) A machine that moves breathable air into and out of the lungs of a patient who is unable to breathe sufficiently.
- Near-synonym: respirator
- (figurative) Some behaviour or happening that relieves a tense atmosphere or situation.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Act of Parliament”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 188:
- A lover's quarrel is made up of jealousies, doubts, hopes, fears, and all sorts of fantastic fancies: a matrimonial dispute, on the contrary, is composed of familiar and ordinary matter, a sort of ventilator to the temper!
- (obsolete, slang) A play or an actor so bad as to empty the theater.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Tigrinya: ቨንቲለይተር (väntiläytär)
Translations
[edit]device that circulates fresh air and expels stale or noxious air
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medicine: machine to help breathing
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References
[edit]- Albert Barrère; Charles Godfrey Leland (1897), A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant
Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]ventilator c (singular definite ventilatoren, plural indefinite ventilatorer)
- fan, ventilator (device that circulates fresh air)
Declension
[edit]| common gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | ventilator | ventilatoren | ventilatorer | ventilatorerne |
| genitive | ventilators | ventilatorens | ventilatorers | ventilatorernes |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English ventilator.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ventilator m (plural ventilatoren or ventilators, diminutive ventilatortje n)
- fan, ventilator (device that circulates fresh air)
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “ventilator”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
Further reading
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ventilator on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
Latin
[edit]Etymology
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From ventilō (“to expose to a draught”) + -tor.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wɛn.tɪˈɫaː.tɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ven.tiˈlaː.tor]
Noun
[edit]ventilātor m (genitive ventilātōris); third declension
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ventilātor | ventilātōrēs |
| genitive | ventilātōris | ventilātōrum |
| dative | ventilātōrī | ventilātōribus |
| accusative | ventilātōrem | ventilātōrēs |
| ablative | ventilātōre | ventilātōribus |
| vocative | ventilātor | ventilātōrēs |
Descendants
[edit](Note: some terms are unsorted.)
- → Catalan: ventilador
- → Danish: ventilator
- → English: ventilator
- → Dutch: ventilator
- → German: Ventilator
- → Czech: ventilátor
- → Hungarian: ventilátor
- → French: ventilateur
- → Romanian: ventilator
- → Italian: ventilatore
- → Macedonian: вентила́тор (ventilátor)
- → Occitan: ventilator
- → Portuguese: ventilador
- → Russian: вентиля́тор (ventiljátor)
- → Crimean Tatar: ventilâtor
- → Serbo-Croatian: ventìlātor / вентѝла̄тор
- → Spanish: ventilador
- → Ukrainian: вентиля́тор (ventyljátor)
Verb
[edit]ventilātor
References
[edit]- “ventilator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Occitan
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[edit]Noun
[edit]ventilator m (plural ventilators) (Limousin)
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French ventilateur. By surface analysis, ventila + -tor.
Noun
[edit]ventilator n (plural ventilatoare)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative-accusative | ventilator | ventilatorul | ventilatoare | ventilatoarele |
| genitive-dative | ventilator | ventilatorului | ventilatoare | ventilatoarelor |
| vocative | ventilatorule | ventilatoarelor | ||
See also
[edit]Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ventilírati.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ventìlātor m inan (Cyrillic spelling вентѝла̄тор)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ventilator | ventilatori |
| genitive | ventilatora | ventilatora |
| dative | ventilatoru | ventilatorima |
| accusative | ventilator | ventilatore |
| vocative | ventilatoru / ventilatore | ventilatori |
| locative | ventilatoru | ventilatorima |
| instrumental | ventilatorom | ventilatorima |
References
[edit]- “ventilator”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
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