eductor

English

Etymology

Latin eductor (“tutor”).

Noun

eductor (plural eductors)

One who, or that which, brings forth, elicits, or extracts.
- E. Darwin
  Stimulus must be called an eductor of vital ether.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for eductor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

courted

Latin

Etymology

From ēdūcō +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /eːˈduk.tor/, [eːˈd̪ʊkt̪ɔr]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈduk.tor/, [eˈd̪ukt̪or]

Noun

ēductor m (genitive ēductōris); third declension

a bringer up, tutor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	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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