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English
Noun
automotor (plural automotors)
- (obsolete) Any motorized vehicle.
1896, Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute, volume 27, page 226:And the demand is enhanced by the call for rubber for tires to ordinary carriages, cycles, and automotors.
1899, The Auto: The Motorist's Pictorial, volumes 3-4, page xiii:To the Publisher, THE AUTOMOTOR AND HORSELESS VEHICLE JOURNAL, 62, St. Martin's Lane, London, W.C.
1915, Commerce Reports, volume 2, number 115, page 784:One of the commercial attachés of the Department of Commerce in South America transmits the name and address of an engineer who desires to receive full information relative to an automotor for an interurban railway.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French automoteur. By surface analysis, auto- + motor.
Noun
automotor n (plural automotoare)
- railcar
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
From auto- + motor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /automoˈtoɾ/
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: au‧to‧mo‧tor
Adjective
automotor (feminine automotora or automotriz, masculine plural automotores, feminine plural automotoras or automotrices)
- automotive
- automobile
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