operator

Borrowed from Latin operatōr, from operor (“work, labour”). Equivalent to operate +‎ -or.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒpəˌɹeɪtə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑpəˌɹeɪtɚ/

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• Hyphenation: op‧er‧ator

operator (countable and uncountable, plural operators)

1. One who operates.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:

     The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.

2. A telecommunications facilitator whose job is to establish temporary network connections.
3. (mathematics) A function or other mapping that carries variables defined on a domain into another variable or set of variables in a defined range.
4. (uncountable) The game of Chinese whispers.
5. (informal) A person who is adept at making deals or getting results, especially one who uses questionable methods.
   • 1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 1:

     Francis Urquhart: I think Lord Billsborough is starting to lose touch a bit.
     Tim Stamper: Shame. Used to be a hell of an operator in his day.

6. A member of a military special operations unit.
7. (computing) The administrator of a channel or network on IRC.
8. (computing) A symbol that represents a construct in a programming language and differs from a normal function in its syntax.
9. (linguistics) A kind of expression that enters into an a-bar movement dependency and is said to bind a variable.

   In the sentence "What did Bill say he wants to buy?", "what" is an operator, binding a phonetically empty variable.

• operator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• aeroport, aëroport, poor rate

operor +‎ -tor.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /o.peˈraː.tor/, [ɔpɛˈräːt̪ɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /o.peˈra.tor/, [opeˈräːt̪or]

operātor m (genitive operātōris); third declension

1. worker, operator

Third-declension noun.

operātor

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of operor

• “operator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• operator 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)
• operator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

• Ultimately from Latin operātor (“worker”), probably through English operator.

• IPA^(key): /oːpɛɾɑːˈtoːɾ/

operator ?

1. surgeon

Borrowed from French opérateur, from Latin operātor.

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.pɛˈra.tɔr/

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• Rhymes: -atɔr
• Syllabification: o‧pe‧ra‧tor

operator m pers (feminine operatorka)

1. machinist, operator
2. (medicine) surgeon

   Synonym: chirurg

3. (cinematography) cameraman, cinematographer
4. (telecommunications) operator (company providing operator services)

operator m inan

1. (mathematics) operator
2. (linguistics) operator

• operator in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• operator in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From French opérateur or Latin operator. Equivalent to opera +‎ -tor.

operator m or n (feminine singular operatoare, masculine plural operatori, feminine and neuter plural operatoare)

1. operating

operator m (plural operatori)

1. worker, operator

• IPA^(key): /opěraːtor/
• Hyphenation: o‧pe‧ra‧tor

opèrātor m (Cyrillic spelling опѐра̄тор)

1. (mathematics) operator

operator c

1. (mathematics, computing) an operator