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deviator

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English

Etymology

From deviate + -or.

Pronunciation

Noun

deviator (plural deviators)

  1. That which deviates, or causes deviation
    • 2007 April 29, Jon Meacham, “Friends of Winston”, in New York Times:
      For Tories like Cartland, deviating from the Chamberlain line was seen as betrayal, not disagreement, and the deviators were subjected to raw schoolboy pressure.

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Latin

Pronunciation

Verb

dēviātor

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

References

  • deviator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • deviator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French déviateur. By surface analysis, devia + -tor.

Noun

deviator m (plural deviatori, feminine equivalent deviatoare)

  1. diverter

Declension

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