erector

• erectour (obsolete, rare)

From Latin ērigō (“I raise up, elevate, lift”), equivalent to erect +‎ -or.

erector (plural erectors)

1. A person who, or a device which erects.
   • 2014, Mike Riley, Alison Cotgrave, Construction Technology 2: Industrial and Commercial Building:

     At this stage of the construction process the only people on the site would normally be groundworkers and the steel erectors, followed by the roof cladders.

2. (anatomy) Any of several muscles that make parts of the body erect.
3. An attachment to a microscope, telescope, etc. for making the image erect instead of inverted.
4. (astronautics) A vehicle used to support a rocket for transportation and for placing the rocket in an upright position within a gantry scaffold.

• Tercero

Borrowed from French érecteur.

erector n (plural erectori)

1. erector

From erecto +‎ -or.

erector (feminine erectora, masculine plural erectores, feminine plural erectoras)

1. erecting

erector m (plural erectores)

1. erector

• “erector”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024