ventilator

See also: Ventilator, ventilátor, and ventilâtor

English

A ventilation system outlined in the Gentlemen's Magazine, 1752

A medical ventilator

Etymology

From ventilate +‎ -or; cf. Latin ventilator.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛntɪleɪtə/

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

ventilator (plural ventilators)

1. A device that circulates fresh air and expels stale or noxious air.
2. (medicine) A machine that moves breathable air into and out of the lungs of a patient who is unable to breathe sufficiently.

   Hypernym: respirator

3. (figurative) Some behaviour or happening that relieves a tense atmosphere or situation.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Act of Parliament”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 188:

     A lover's quarrel is made up of jealousies, doubts, hopes, fears, and all sorts of fantastic fancies: a matrimonial dispute, on the contrary, is composed of familiar and ordinary matter, a sort of ventilator to the temper!

4. (obsolete, slang) A play or an actor so bad as to empty the theater.

Derived terms

• screw ventilator
• tank ventilator

 

Translations

device that circulates fresh air and expels stale or noxious air

• Afrikaans: ventilator
• Albanian: freskore (sq)
• Arabic: مِرْوَحَة (ar) f (mirwaḥa)
• Catalan: ventilador (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 通風器／通风器 (zh) (tōngfēngqì), 換氣機／换气机 (huànqìjī)

• Czech: ventilátor (cs) m
• Danish: ventilator c
• Dutch: ventilator (nl) m
• Finnish: ilmanvaihtokone
• French: ventilateur (fr) m
• Georgian: ვენტილატორი (venṭilaṭori)
• German: Lüfter (de) m
• Hebrew: ונטילטור (he), מאוורר (he)
• Hungarian: ventilátor (hu), szellőztető (hu), elszívó (hu), légelszívó, légcserélő
• Indonesian: penggemar (id)
• Japanese: ベンチレーター (benchirētā)
• Korean: 인공호흡기 (in'gonghoheupgi)
• Malay: kipas (ms)
• Polish: wentylator (pl) m
• Portuguese: ventilador (pt) m, circulador de ar m, exaustor (pt) m
• Romanian: ventilator (ro) n
• Russian: вентиля́тор (ru) m (ventiljátor)
• Spanish: ventilador (es) m
• Tagalog: bentilador
• Turkish: vantilatör (tr)
• Uzbek: ventilyator (uz)
• Vietnamese: máy thông gió, bộ thông gió

medicine: machine to help breathing

• Catalan: respirador mèdic m, ventilador mecànic m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 呼吸機／呼吸机 (hūxījī), 呼吸器 (zh) (hūxīqì)

• Czech: ventilátor (cs) m
• Danish: respirator (da) c
• Dutch: beademingsapparaat (nl) n
• Finnish: hengityskone (fi)
• French: respirateur artificiel m, respirateur (fr) m
• German: Beatmungsgerät (de) n
• Hungarian: lélegeztetőgép
• Korean: 인공호흡기 (in'gonghoheupgi)
• Polish: respirator (pl) m
• Spanish: respirador (es) m
• Swedish: respirator (sv) c
• Turkish: solunum cihazı
• Welsh: gwyntiedydd m

References

• Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1897) A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant

Danish

Noun

ventilator c (singular definite ventilatoren, plural indefinite ventilatorer)

1. fan, ventilator (device that circulates fresh air)

Declension

Declension of ventilator

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ventilator	ventilatoren	ventilatorer	ventilatorerne
genitive	ventilators	ventilatorens	ventilatorers	ventilatorernes

Derived terms

• ventilatorrem

Further reading

• “ventilator” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛntiˈlaːtɔr/

• Audio:

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Noun

ventilator m (plural ventilatoren or ventilators, diminutive ventilatortje n)

1. fan, ventilator (device that circulates fresh air)

Latin

Etymology

From ventilō (“to expose to a draught”) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯en.tiˈlaː.tor/, [u̯ɛn̪t̪ɪˈɫ̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ven.tiˈla.tor/, [ven̪t̪iˈläːt̪or]

Noun

ventilātor m (genitive ventilātōris); third declension

1. winnower

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ventilātor	ventilātōrēs
Genitive	ventilātōris	ventilātōrum
Dative	ventilātōrī	ventilātōribus
Accusative	ventilātōrem	ventilātōrēs
Ablative	ventilātōre	ventilātōribus
Vocative	ventilātor	ventilātōrēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: ventilador
• → Dutch: ventilator
• → English: ventilator
• → French: ventilateur
• → Portuguese: ventilador
• → Romanian: ventilator
• → Russian: вентиля́тор (ventiljátor)
• → Serbo-Croatian: ventìlātor/вентѝла̄тор
• → Spanish: ventilador

Verb

ventilātor

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

References

• “ventilator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Occitan

Pronunciation

• Audio (Gascony):

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Noun

ventilator m (plural ventilators) (Limousin)

1. ventilator, fan

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French ventilateur. Equivalent to ventila +‎ -tor.

Noun

ventilator n (plural ventilatoare)

1. ventilator, fan

Declension

Declension of ventilator

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) ventilator	ventilatorul	(niște) ventilatoare	ventilatoarele
genitive/dative	(unui) ventilator	ventilatorului	(unor) ventilatoare	ventilatoarelor
vocative	ventilatorule		ventilatoarelor

See also

• evantai

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From ventilírati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋentǐlaːtor/
• Hyphenation: ven‧ti‧la‧tor

Noun

ventìlātor m (Cyrillic spelling вентѝла̄тор)

1. fan, ventilator

Declension

Declension of ventilator

	singular	plural
nominative	ventilator	ventilatori
genitive	ventilatora	ventilatora
dative	ventilatoru	ventilatorima
accusative	ventilator	ventilatore
vocative	ventilatoru / ventilatore	ventilatori
locative	ventilatoru	ventilatorima
instrumental	ventilatorom	ventilatorima

References

• “ventilator”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024