automate

See also: aŭtomate

English

Etymology

Back-formation from automation

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.tə.meɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.təˌmeɪt/, [ˈɔ.ɾəˌmeɪt], /ˈɔ.toʊˌmeɪt/, [ˈɔ.ɾoʊˌmeɪt]
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.təˌmeɪt/, [ˈɑ.ɾəˌmeɪt], /ˈɑ.toʊˌmeɪt/, [ˈɑ.ɾoʊˌmeɪt]

  • Audio (US):

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈoː.tə.mæɪt/, [ˈoː.ɾə.mæɪt]
• Rhymes: -eɪt

Verb

automate (third-person singular simple present automates, present participle automating, simple past and past participle automated)

1. (ambitransitive) To replace or enhance human labor with machines.

   Many offices still need to automate.

   We saved time and money by automating the process.

   • 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 83:

     In the early '60's a Yoyodyne executive living near L.A. and located someplace in the corporate root-system above supervisor but below vice-president, found himself, at age 39, automated out of a job.

Synonyms

• robotize

Derived terms

• automatability
• automatise
• informate
• semiautomate

Related terms

• automat
• automatable
• automatic
• automation
• automatization
• automatize
• automaton

Translations

to replace or enhance human labor with machines

Arabic: أَتْمَتَ (ʔatmata) Armenian: ավտոմատացնել (hy) (avtomatacʻnel) Belarusian: аўтаматызава́ць impf or pf (aŭtamatyzavácʹ) Bulgarian: автоматизи́рам (bg) impf or pf (avtomatizíram) Catalan: automatitzar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 自動化 / 自动化 (zh) (zìdònghuà) Czech: automatizovat impf, zautomatizovat pf Danish: automatisere Dutch: automatiseren (nl) Finnish: automatisoida (fi), automaattistaa French: automatiser (fr) Galician: automatizar German: automatisieren (de) Greek: αυτοματοποιήστε (el) (aftomatopoiíste), αυτοματοποιήστε (el) (aftomatopoiíste) Hungarian: automatizál (hu) Japanese: 自動化する (ja) (じどうかする, jidōka suru) Korean: 자동화하다 (ko) (jadonghwahada) Macedonian: автоматизи́ра impf or pf (avtomatizíra) Maori: whakaaunoa Norman: automâter Persian: خودکاراندن Polish: automatyzować impf, zautomatyzować pf Portuguese: automatizar (pt) Romanian: automatiza (ro) Russian: автоматизи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (avtomatizírovatʹ) Slovak: automatizovať impf, zaautomatizovať pf Spanish: automatizar (es) Swedish: automatisera (sv) Ukrainian: автоматизува́ти (uk) impf or pf (avtomatyzuváty) Yiddish: אויטאָמאַטירן (oytomatirn), אויטאָמירן (oytomirn)

French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek αὐτόματον (autómaton), neuter of αὐτόματος (autómatos, “self moving, self willed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.tɔ.mat/, /ɔ.tɔ.mat/

• Audio:

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Noun

automate m (plural automates)

1. automaton
   • 2020 June 19, “Stopper la haine sur Internet”, in Le Monde‎:

     Des monceaux de messages racistes, antisémites, misogynes ou homophobes s’étalent en permanence sur les réseaux sociaux, générés par des individus, mais aussi par des automates, soufflant sur les braises et semant le désordre à grande échelle.

     Mountains of racist, antisemitic, misogynistic and homophobic messages are permanently visible on social media, generated by people, but also by bots, fanning the flames and causing chaos on a vast scale.

Descendants

• → Dutch: automaat
• → Russian: автома́т (avtomát)
• → Turkish: otomat

Further reading

• “automate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [au̯ˈtɔ.ma.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [au̯ˈt̪ɔː.ma.t̪e]

Adjective

automate

1. vocative masculine singular of automatus and automatos

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.u.toˈma.te/

Adjective

automate

1. nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of automat

Noun

automate

1. plural of automat