adaptator

adaptator (plural adaptators)

1. (rare) Synonym of adapter.
   • 1842 August, Edward Mayhew, “The English Stage, Showing the Cause of Its Excellence, the Reason of Its Decline, and the Source from Which It Will Be Revived”, in The Monthly Magazine, volume XCVI, number DXLVIII, London, page 189:

     Yet it was an improvement on the stage plays of the former age, when tragedies and comedies were imported from France with an avidity not to be exceeded by the minor adaptators of the present time.

   • 1981, Jacques Barchilon, Peter Flinders, “Last Years and Last Works”, in Charles Perrault (Twayne’s World Authors Series; 639), Boston, Mass.: Twayne Publishers, G. K. Hall & Co., →ISBN, page 151:

     [Gabriel] Faerno was one of the many translator-imitators, or rather adaptators, of Aesop and Phaedrus, antedating [Jean de] La Fontaine by one hundred years.

   • 2007, Amy Scott-Douglass, “ Introduction, ‘Dramatic Shakespeare: Stars and Spin-offs’”, in Richard Burt, editor, Shakespeares after Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture, volume 2, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 739, column 2:

     This trend in King Lear revisions is representative of a general tendency when it comes to [William] Shakespeare spin-offs: namely, that adaptators of Shakespeare often see it as their particular mission to give voice to the characters in Shakespeare who are mistreated, misunderstood, or just plain missing.

adaptātor

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

Borrowed from German Adaptator.^[1] By surface analysis, adaptować +‎ -ator. First attested in 1878.^[2]

• IPA^(key): /a.dapˈta.tɔr/
• Rhymes: -atɔr
• Syllabification: a‧dap‧ta‧tor

adaptator m pers (female equivalent adaptatorka)

1. adapter (person who adapts something to better suit an environment)
2. (art) adapter (person who adapts a work of art)

• adaptator in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• adaptator in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• adaptator in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego