interceptor

intercept +‎ -or

interceptor (plural interceptors)

1. Anything that intercepts something else.
2. A combat aircraft designed to intercept and destroy enemy aircraft before they can attack.
3. A guided missile designed to intercept and destroy enemy missiles.
4. (architecture, engineering) A device to trap, remove, or separate hazardous or undesirable matter (such as oil or sand) from normal waste conveyed through it, permitting normal sewage or liquid wastes to discharge into the disposal terminal by gravity.
5. (computing, programming) A hook routine that intercepts normal program flow to carry out a task.
6. A sewer that intercepts sewerage destined for an outfall (e.g. into a river) and redirects it to a treatment plant.

interceptus, perfect passive participle of intercipiō (“to intercept, cut off”) +‎ -tor

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /in.terˈkep.tor/, [ɪn̪t̪ɛrˈkɛpt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.terˈt͡ʃep.tor/, [in̪t̪erˈt͡ʃɛpt̪or]

interceptor m (genitive interceptōris); third declension

1. interceptor, usurper, embezzler

Third-declension noun.

• “interceptor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “interceptor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Borrowed from French intercepteur.

interceptor n (plural interceptoare)

1. interceptor

interceptor (feminine interceptora, masculine plural interceptores, feminine plural interceptoras)

1. that intercepts

interceptor m (plural interceptores, feminine interceptora, feminine plural interceptoras)

1. interceptor

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