excavateur
French
Etymology
Calque of English excavator.
Pronunciation
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Noun
excavateur m (plural excavateurs)
- excavator (vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc; a backhoe)
- Synonym: excavatrice
Descendants
- → Romanian: excavator
- → Turkish: ekskavatör
Further reading
- “excavateur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.