ventilator

English
A ventilation system outlined in the Gentlemen's Magazine, 1752
A medical ventilator

Etymology

ventilate +‎ -or; cf. Latin ventilator.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈvɛntɪleɪtə/
  • Audio (AU)(file)

Noun

ventilator (plural ventilators)

  1. A device that circulates fresh air and expels stale or noxious air.
  2. (medicine) A machine that moves breathable air into and out of the lungs of a patient who is unable to breathe sufficiently.
    Hypernym: respirator
  3. (figurative) Some behaviour or happening that relieves a tense atmosphere or situation.
    • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Act of Parliament”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 188:
      A lover's quarrel is made up of jealousies, doubts, hopes, fears, and all sorts of fantastic fancies: a matrimonial dispute, on the contrary, is composed of familiar and ordinary matter, a sort of ventilator to the temper!
  4. (obsolete, slang) A play or an actor so bad as to empty the theater.

Derived terms

Translations

References
  • Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1897) A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant

Danish

Noun

ventilator c (singular definite ventilatoren, plural indefinite ventilatorer)

  1. fan, ventilator (device that circulates fresh air)

Declension
Declension of ventilator
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ventilator ventilatoren ventilatorer ventilatorerne
genitive ventilators ventilatorens ventilatorers ventilatorernes

Derived terms

Further reading

Dutch

Etymology

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Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /vɛntiˈlaːtɔr/
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Noun

ventilator m (plural ventilatoren or ventilators, diminutive ventilatortje n)

  1. fan, ventilator (device that circulates fresh air)

Latin

Etymology

From ventilō (“to expose to a draught”) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

Noun

ventilātor m (genitive ventilātōris); third declension

  1. winnower

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ventilātor ventilātōrēs
Genitive ventilātōris ventilātōrum
Dative ventilātōrī ventilātōribus
Accusative ventilātōrem ventilātōrēs
Ablative ventilātōre ventilātōribus
Vocative ventilātor ventilātōrēs

Descendants

Verb

ventilātor

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

References

Occitan

Pronunciation
  • Audio (Gascon)(file)

Noun

ventilator m (plural ventilators) (Limousin)

  1. ventilator, fan

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French ventilateur. Equivalent to ventila +‎ -tor.

Noun

ventilator n (plural ventilatoare)

  1. ventilator, fan

Declension
Declension of ventilator
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) ventilator ventilatorul (niște) ventilatoare ventilatoarele
genitive/dative (unui) ventilator ventilatorului (unor) ventilatoare ventilatoarelor
vocative ventilatorule ventilatoarelor

See also

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From ventilírati.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʋentǐlaːtor/
  • Hyphenation: ven‧ti‧la‧tor

Noun

ventìlātor m (Cyrillic spelling вентѝла̄тор)

  1. fan, ventilator

Declension
Declension of ventilator
singular plural
nominative ventilator ventilatori
genitive ventilatora ventilatora
dative ventilatoru ventilatorima
accusative ventilator ventilatore
vocative ventilatoru / ventilatore ventilatori
locative ventilatoru ventilatorima
instrumental ventilatorom ventilatorima

References
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