articulator

English

Etymology

articulate +‎ -or

Noun

articulator (plural articulators)

1. One who, or that which, articulates or expresses.
   • 2008 May 31, Joe Nocera, “At Exxon’s Can’t-Miss Meeting”, in New York Times‎:

     He’s got a point; the same qualities that make Exxon Mobil the world’s best producer of oil and gas also cause it to be a terrible articulator of its own message.

2. One who articulates bones and mounts skeletons.
3. (dentistry) A mechanical device to which casts of the teeth are fixed, reproducing recorded positions of the mandible in relation to the maxilla.
4. (phonetics) Any organ in the vocal tract used to articulate, produce speech.

   Synonym: speech organ

Translations

References

• “articulator”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “articulator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Verb

articulātor

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

References

• articulator 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)