eductor

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English

Etymology

Latin eductor (“tutor”).

Noun

eductor (plural eductors)

  1. Someone or something that educts (elicits or extracts).
    • 1794–1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: J Johnson, , →OCLC:
      Stimulus must be called an eductor of vital ether.
    • 1994, Gregory L. Williams, James E. Clausner, Peter Jay Neilans, Improved Eductors for Sand Bypassing:
      The eductors in an entrance channel will have to be placed at the end of long pipes that extend from outside the entrance channel […]
  2. Short for gully eductor.

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Latin

Etymology

From ēdūcō +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

Noun

ēductor m (genitive ēductōris); third declension

  1. a bringer up, tutor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative ēductor ēductōrēs
genitive ēductōris ēductōrum
dative ēductōrī ēductōribus
accusative ēductōrem ēductōrēs
ablative ēductōre ēductōribus
vocative ēductor ēductōrēs

References

  • “eductor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • eductor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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