ablator

English

ablate +‎ -or

ablator (plural ablators)

A material that ablates, vaporizes, wears away, burns off, erodes, or abrades. [Mid 20^th century.][1]

Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “ablator”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 5.

From ablātus, perfect passive participle of auferō (“carry off, take away”).

ablātor m (genitive ablātōris); third declension

Third-declension noun.

“ablator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ablator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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