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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
Noun
stator (plural stators)
- The stationary part of a motor or other machine.
Translations
stationary part of a motor
Anagrams
French
Noun
stator m (plural stators)
- stator
Further reading
Latin
Etymology
stō (“to stand”) + -tor
Pronunciation
Noun
stator m (genitive statōris); third declension
- an attendant or servant to a magistrate or proconsul; a messenger, orderly
Declension
Third-declension noun.
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