erector
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- erectour (obsolete, rare)
Etymology
[edit]From Latin ērigō (“I raise up, elevate, lift”), equivalent to erect + -or.
Noun
[edit]erector (plural erectors)
- A person who, or a device which erects.
- 2014, Mike Riley, Alison Cotgrave, Construction Technology 2: Industrial and Commercial Building:
- At this stage of the construction process the only people on the site would normally be groundworkers and the steel erectors, followed by the roof cladders.
- (anatomy) Any of several muscles that make parts of the body erect.
- An attachment to a microscope, telescope, etc. for making the image erect instead of inverted.
- (astronautics) A vehicle used to support a rocket for transportation and for placing the rocket in an upright position within a gantry scaffold.
Derived terms
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French érecteur.
Noun
[edit]erector n (plural erectori)
Declension
[edit]Declension of erector
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) erector | erectorul | (niște) erectori | erectorile |
genitive/dative | (unui) erector | erectorului | (unor) erectori | erectorilor |
vocative | erectorule | erectorilor |
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]erector (feminine erectora, masculine plural erectores, feminine plural erectoras)
Noun
[edit]erector m (plural erectores)
Further reading
[edit]- “erector”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₃reǵ-
- English terms borrowed from Latin
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- English terms suffixed with -or (agent noun)
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
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- Spanish terms suffixed with -or
- Spanish lemmas
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