stator

English

Etymology

From stationary or static by analogy with rotor; alternatively from a hypothetical Latin stātor (literally “stander”); all ultimately from stāre (“to stand”).

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

stator (plural stators)

1. The stationary part of a motor or other machine.

Related terms

• rotor

Translations

stationary part of a motor

Basque: estatore (eu) Chinese: Mandarin: 定子 (zh) (dìngzǐ) Finnish: staattori (fi), seisoja (fi) Greek: στάτης (el) m (státis) Macedonian: ста́тор m (státor) Polish: stojan (pl) Portuguese: estator (pt) m Spanish: estátor m, estator (es) m Tagalog: patigil

Anagrams

• Rattos, Tatros, ottars, rottas, strato-, tarots, tators, tortas, troats

French

Noun

stator m (plural stators)

1. stator

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

stō (“to stand”) +‎ -tor

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsta.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈst̪aː.t̪or]

Noun

stator m (genitive statōris); third declension

1. an attendant or servant to a magistrate or proconsul; a messenger, orderly

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	stator	statōrēs
genitive	statōris	statōrum
dative	statōrī	statōribus
accusative	statōrem	statōrēs
ablative	statōre	statōribus
vocative	stator	statōrēs

References

• “stator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “stator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “stator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “stator”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “stator”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin