reluctor
English
Etymology
From reluctance + -or.
Noun
reluctor (plural reluctors)
- (automotive) A toothed ring or wheel that rotates past a variable reluctance sensor.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /reˈluːk.tor/, [rɛˈɫ̪uːkt̪ɔr] or IPA(key): /reˈluk.tor/, [rɛˈɫ̪ʊkt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /reˈluk.tor/, [reˈlukt̪or]
Verb
relū̆ctor (present infinitive relū̆ctārī, perfect active relū̆ctātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- to resist (struggle against)
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
- Spanish: reluchar
References
- “reluctor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “reluctor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- reluctor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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