ventilator

See also: Ventilator, ventilátor, and ventilâtor

English

Etymology

ventilate +‎ -or; cf. Latin ventilator.

Noun

ventilator (plural ventilators)

A device that circulates fresh air and expels stale or noxious air.
(medicine) A respirator.
(obsolete, slang) A play or an actor so bad as to empty the theater.

Translations

device that circulates fresh air and expels stale or noxious air

Afrikaans: ventilator
Albanian: freskore (sq)
Arabic: مِرْوَحَة‎ f (mirwaḥa)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 通風器 (zh), 通风器 (zh) (tōngfēngqì), 換氣機, 换气机 (huànqìjī)
Dutch: ventilator (nl) m
Finnish: tuuletin (fi)
French: ventilateur (fr) m
Georgian: ვენტილატორი (venṭilaṭori)
German: Lüfter (de) m
Indonesian: penggemar (id)
Japanese: ベンチレーター (benchirētā)

Malay: kipas
Polish: wentylator (pl) m
Portuguese: ventilador (pt) m, circulador de ar m, exaustor (pt) m
Romanian: ventilator (ro) n
Russian: вентиля́тор (ru) m (ventiljátor)
Spanish: ventilador (es) m
Tagalog: bentilador
Turkish: vantilatör (tr), yelletke
Uzbek: ventilyator (uz)
Vietnamese: thông gió

respirator — see respirator

References

1897, Albert Barrère, ‎Charles Godfrey Leland, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant

Dutch

Etymology

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /vɛntiˈlaːtɔr/
Audio (file)

Noun

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

fan, ventilator (device that circulates fresh air)

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /wen.tiˈlaː.tor/, [wɛn.tɪˈɫaː.tɔr]

Noun

ventilātor m (genitive ventilātōris); third declension

winnower

Inflection

Third declension.

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

Descendants

→ Dutch: ventilator
→ English: ventilator
→ French: ventilateur
→ Russian: вентиля́тор (ventiljátor)
→ Serbo-Croatian: ventìlātor/вентѝла̄тор

Verb

ventilātor

second-person singular future passive imperative of ventilō
third-person singular future passive imperative of ventilō

References

ventilator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French ventilateur.

Noun

ventilator n (plural ventilatoare)

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From ventilírati.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ventìlātor m (Cyrillic spelling вентѝла̄тор)

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

“ventilator” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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