conductor

• conductour (obsolete)

Borrowed from Middle French conductour, from Old French conduitor, from Latin conductor.

• IPA^(key): /kənˈdʌktɚ/

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conductor (plural conductors, feminine conductress)

1. One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.
   • Dryden

     Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.

2. (music) A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation is conducting.
3. A person who takes tickets on public transportation and also helps passengers

   train conductor; tram conductor

4. Something that can transmit electricity, heat, light or sound.
5. (mathematics) An ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed
   • 1988, F van Oystaeyen, Lieven Le Bruyn, Perspectives in ring theory

     If c is the conductor ideal for R in R then prime ideals not containing c correspond to localizations yielding discrete valuation rings.

6. A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, such as lithontriptic forceps; a director.
7. (architecture) A leader.

• non-conductor (3), nonconductor (3), insulator (3)

• conductor rail
• lightning conductor

• conduct
• semiconductor, dielectric

• ticket inspector

Borrowed from Latin conductor, conductōrem (“contractor, employer”).

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /kon.dukˈto/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kun.dukˈto/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kon.dukˈtoɾ/

conductor (feminine conductora, masculine plural conductors, feminine plural conductores)

1. driving
2. conducting

conductor m (plural conductors)

1. driver
2. (physics) conductor

• conduir

From condūcō (“I lead”) +‎ -tor.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /konˈduk.tor/, [kɔnˈdʊk.tɔr]

conductor m (genitive conductōris); third declension

1. employer, entrepreneur
2. contractor
3. (physics) conductor (of heat, electricity etc)

Third declension.

• conductor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• conductor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• conductor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• conductor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

conductor m (plural conductores, feminine conductora, feminine plural conductoras)

1. Obsolete form of condutor.

Borrowed from Latin conductor, conductorem (“contractor, employer”).

conductor m (plural conductores, feminine conductora, feminine plural conductoras)

1. driver
2. conductor (transmitter of electricity, heat, light or sound)
3. (Argentina, Uruguay) presenter; host (of television show)

• conducir

• chófer