evacuator

English

Etymology

evacuate + -or

Noun

evacuator (plural evacuators)

  1. One who evacuates; a nullifier.
    • 1644, Henry Hammond, Practical Catechism:
      In which words sure He doth not pitch on the name of scribes and Pharisees, peculiarly as those that were the greatest evacuators of the law by their own hypocritical practices or false glosses in some particulars []
  2. An agent for emptying, especially an instrument for removing fragments of stone from the bladder after litholapaxy.

Latin

Verb

ēvacuātor

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French évacuateur.

Adjective

evacuator m or n (feminine singular evacuatoare, masculine plural evacuatori, feminine and neuter plural evacuatoare)

  1. evacuatory

Declension

Noun

evacuator n (plural evacuatori)

  1. evacuator

Declension

References

  • evacuator in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
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