ventilator

From ventilate +‎ -or; cf. Latin ventilator.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛntɪleɪtə/

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ventilator (plural ventilators)

1. A device that circulates fresh air and expels stale or noxious air.
2. (medicine) A machine that moves breathable air into and out of the lungs of a patient who is unable to breathe sufficiently.

   Hypernym: respirator

3. (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!

4. (obsolete, slang) A play or an actor so bad as to empty the theater.

• Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1897) A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant

ventilator c (singular definite ventilatoren, plural indefinite ventilatorer)

1. fan, ventilator (device that circulates fresh air)

• ventilatorrem

• “ventilator” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from English ventilator.

• IPA^(key): /vɛntiˈlaːtɔr/

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• Hyphenation: ven‧ti‧la‧tor

ventilator m (plural ventilatoren or ventilators, diminutive ventilatortje n)

1. fan, ventilator (device that circulates fresh air)

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “ventilator”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

• ventilator on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

From ventilō (“to expose to a draught”) +‎ -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɛn.tɪˈɫaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ven̪.t̪iˈlaː.t̪or]

ventilātor m (genitive ventilātōris); third declension

1. winnower

Third-declension noun.

• → Catalan: ventilador
• → Dutch: ventilator
• → English: ventilator
• → French: ventilateur
• → Portuguese: ventilador
• → Romanian: ventilator
• → Russian: вентиля́тор (ventiljátor)
• → Serbo-Croatian: ventìlātor/вентѝла̄тор
• → Spanish: ventilador

ventilātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of ventilō

• “ventilator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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ventilator m (plural ventilators) (Limousin)

1. ventilator, fan

Borrowed from French ventilateur. Equivalent to ventila +‎ -tor.

ventilator n (plural ventilatoare)

1. ventilator, fan

• evantai

From ventilírati.

• IPA^(key): /ʋentǐlaːtor/
• Hyphenation: ven‧ti‧la‧tor

ventìlātor m inan (Cyrillic spelling вентѝла̄тор)

1. fan, ventilator

• “ventilator”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025