conductor

• conductour (obsolete)

Borrowed from Middle French conductour, from Old French conduitor, from Latin conductor.

• IPA^(key): /kənˈdʌktɚ/

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conductor (plural conductors, feminine conductress or conductrix)

1. One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.
   • 1687, [John Dryden], “The Third Part”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], OCLC 460679539, page 96:

     […] Zeal, the blind conductor of the will;

2. (music) A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation is conducting.
3. (rail transport) A person who takes tickets on public transportation and also helps passengers.

   train conductor

   tram conductor

   • 2022 April 6, “Network News: Booze ban continues as part of move to prioritise women's safety”, in RAIL, number 954, page 6:

     " […] And one of the things that makes me feel safe is when I see the conductor."

4. (physics) Something that can transmit electricity, heat, light, or sound.

   Coordinate term: semiconductor

   Antonyms: dielectric, nonconductor, insulator

5. (mathematics) An ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed
   • 1988, F van Oystaeyen, Lieven Le Bruyn, Perspectives in ring theory

     If c is the conductor ideal for R in R then prime ideals not containing c correspond to localizations yielding discrete valuation rings.

6. A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, such as lithontriptic forceps; a director.
7. (architecture) A leader.

• bus conductor
• conductor rail
• lightning conductor

• conduct

• ticket inspector

Borrowed from Latin conductor, conductōrem (“contractor, employer”).

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /kon.dukˈto/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kun.dukˈto/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kon.dukˈtoɾ/

conductor (feminine conductora, masculine plural conductors, feminine plural conductores)

1. driving
2. conducting

conductor m (plural conductors)

1. driver
2. (physics) conductor

• conduir

From condūcō (“I lead”) +‎ -tor.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /konˈduk.tor/, [kɔn̪ˈd̪ʊkt̪ɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈduk.tor/, [kon̪ˈd̪ukt̪or]

conductor m (genitive conductōris, feminine conductrīx); third declension

1. employer, entrepreneur
2. contractor
3. (physics) conductor (of heat, electricity etc)

Third-declension noun.

• “conductor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “conductor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• conductor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• conductor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

conductor m (plural conductores, feminine conductora, feminine plural conductoras)

1. Obsolete form of condutor.

From French conducteur, from Latin conductor.

conductor n (plural conductoare)

1. (physics) conductor

conductor m (plural conductori)

1. driver
2. (physics) conductor

Borrowed from Latin conductor, conductorem (“contractor, employer”). Cognate with English conductor.

• IPA^(key): /konduɡˈtoɾ/ [kõn̪.d̪uɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]

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• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: con‧duc‧tor

conductor m (plural conductores, feminine conductora, feminine plural conductoras)

1. driver, motorist
2. (Argentina, Uruguay) presenter; host (of television show)

• conducir

• chófer

conductor m (plural conductores)

1. conductor (transmitter of electricity, heat, light or sound)

• “conductor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014