fabricator

English

Etymology

From fabricate +‎ -or.

Noun

fabricator (plural fabricators)

1. A person who fabricates or manufactures something; a manufacturer
2. A person who makes a fabrication of something; a counterfeiter or falsifier

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:deceiver

Coordinate terms

• builder
• maker

Translations

person who fabricates or manufactures

French: fabricant (fr) m, fabricante (fr) f Latin: fabricātor m

counterfeiter or falsifier

French: fabricateur (fr) m, fabricatrice (fr) f

Latin

Etymology

From fābricor +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [faː.brɪˈkaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fa.briˈkaː.t̪or]

Noun

fābricātor m (genitive fābricātōris, feminine fābricātrīx); third declension

1. builder, maker

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fābricātor	fābricātōrēs
genitive	fābricātōris	fābricātōrum
dative	fābricātōrī	fābricātōribus
accusative	fābricātōrem	fābricātōrēs
ablative	fābricātōre	fābricātōribus
vocative	fābricātor	fābricātōrēs

Verb

fabricātor

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

References

• “fabricator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fabricator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "fabricator", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “fabricator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) God is the Creator of the world: deus est mundi procreator (not creator), aedificator, fabricator, opifex rerum
    

Romanian

Etymology

From fabrica +‎ -tor.

Adjective

fabricator m or n (feminine singular fabricatoare, masculine plural fabricatori, feminine and neuter plural fabricatoare)

1. manufacturing

Declension

Declension of fabricator

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	fabricator		fabricatoare		fabricatori	fabricatoare
	definite	fabricatorul		fabricatoarea		fabricatorii	fabricatoarele
genitive- dative	indefinite	fabricator		fabricatoare		fabricatori	fabricatoare
	definite	fabricatorului		fabricatoarei		fabricatorilor	fabricatoarelor

References

• fabricator in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN