eductor
English
Etymology
Noun
eductor (plural eductors)
- Someone or something that educts (elicits or extracts).
- 1794–1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
- Stimulus must be called an eductor of vital ether.
- 1994, Gregory L. Williams, James E. Clausner, Peter Jay Neilans, Improved Eductors for Sand Bypassing:
- The eductors in an entrance channel will have to be placed at the end of long pipes that extend from outside the entrance channel […]
- Ellipsis of gully eductor.
Derived terms
References
- “eductor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [eːˈdʊk.tɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [eˈd̪uk.t̪or]
Noun
ēductor m (genitive ēductōris); third declension
- a bringer up, tutor
Declension
Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | ēductor | ēductōrēs |
genitive | ēductōris | ēductōrum |
dative | ēductōrī | ēductōribus |
accusative | ēductōrem | ēductōrēs |
ablative | ēductōre | ēductōribus |
vocative | ēductor | ēductōrēs |
References
- “eductor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- eductor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.