ascensor

From Latin ascēnsor.

ascensor m (plural ascensores)

1. lift, elevator

Borrowed from Latin ascēnsōrem.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.sənˈso]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [a.senˈsoɾ]

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ascensor m (plural ascensors)

1. elevator, lift

• “ascensor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ascensor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “ascensor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ascensor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Learned borrowing from Latin ascēnsōrem.

ascensor m (plural ascensores)

1. lift, elevator

• “ascensor”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

ad- (“(up) to”) +‎ scandō (“climb”) +‎ -tor (agentive suffix)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /asˈken.sor/, [äs̠ˈkẽːs̠ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aʃˈʃen.sor/, [äʃˈʃɛnsor]

ascēnsor m (genitive ascēnsōris); third declension

1. one who ascends
2. rider, charioteer (person who mounts a horse or rides a chariot)
3. (New Latin) lift, elevator

Third-declension noun.

• “ascensor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ascensor 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)
• ascensor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from Latin ascēnsōrem.

• Hyphenation: as‧cen‧sor

ascensor m (plural ascensores)

1. lift (mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people)

   Synonym: elevador

• “ascensor” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Borrowed from French ascenseur.

• IPA^(key): /as.t͡ʃenˈsor/

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ascensor n (plural ascensoare)

1. elevator, lift

   Synonym: lift

Borrowed from Latin ascēnsor.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /asθenˈsoɾ/ [as.θẽnˈsoɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /asenˈsoɾ/ [a.sẽnˈsoɾ]

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• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: as‧cen‧sor

ascensor m (plural ascensores)

1. (not used in Mexico) elevator, lift

   Synonym: (Mexico, also sometimes in El Salvador) elevador

• “ascensor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014