different between agitator vs agitate

English

Alternative forms

• agitatour (obsolete)

Noun

agitator (plural agitators)

1. One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others, for example political reformers.
   • 1998, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, Imperial Power and Popular Politics (page 208)

     In addition, they kept a watch on political agitators and foreigners arriving and departing at the port.

2. An implement for shaking or mixing.
3. (historical) One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Oliver Cromwell's time, to look after their interests.

   Synonym: adjutator

Translations

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Latin agitatus - putting in motion.

Noun

agitator

1. agitator; one who agitates.

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Danish

Noun

agitator c (singular definite agitatoren, plural indefinite agitatorer)

1. agitator

Declension

Further reading

• “agitator” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin agit?tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?.?i?ta?.t?r/
• Hyphenation: agi?ta?tor

Noun

agitator m (plural agitators)

1. An agitator, one who stirs up unrest, a demagogue.

   Synonyms: demagoog, volksmenner

Related terms

• agiteren

Descendants

• Afrikaans: agitator
• ? Indonesian: agitator

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch agitator, from Latin agit?tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a?i?t?at??r]
• Hyphenation: agi?ta?tor

Noun

agitator (first-person possessive agitatorku, second-person possessive agitatormu, third-person possessive agitatornya)

1. agitator.

   Synonyms: penghasut, provokator

Related terms

Further reading

• “agitator” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.?i?ta?.tor/, [ä???t?ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.d??i?ta.tor/, [?d??i?t???t??r]

Noun

agit?tor m (genitive agit?t?ris); third declension

1. driver of animals; drover
2. charioteer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• English: agitator
• Portuguese: agitador
• Russian: ????????? (agitátor)
• Spanish: agitador

Verb

agit?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of agit?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of agit?

References

• agitator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• agitator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Romanian

Etymology

From French agitateur

Noun

agitator m (plural agitatori)

1. stirrer

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??ta?tor/
• Hyphenation: a?gi?ta?tor

Noun

agìt?tor m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. agitator

Declension

Swedish

Noun

agitator c

1. an agitator; one who agitates

Declension

Related terms

• agitation
• agitatorisk
• agitera

References

• agitator in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Latin agitatus, past participle of agitare (“to put in motion”), from agere (“to move”). Compare with French agiter. See act, agent.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /?æ.d??.te?t/

Verb

agitate (third-person singular simple present agitates, present participle agitating, simple past and past participle agitated)

1. (transitive) To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up (a person). [from 16th c.]

2. (transitive) To cause to move with a violent, irregular action; to shake. [from 16th c.]
   • 1830, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford

     It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To set in motion; to actuate. [16th–18th c.]
4. (transitive, now rare) To discuss or debate. [from 16th c.]
   • 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men:

     Your speech at the time a bill for the regency was agitated now lies before me.

5. (transitive, now rare) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to consider, to devise. [from 17th c.]

Synonyms

• (discuss actively): discuss, debate, canvass

• move, shake, excite, rouse, disturb, distract, revolve

Antonyms

• (stir up): appease, calm, quieten

Related terms

• agitation
• agitator
• agitatee
• agitable
• inagitable

Translations

Further reading

• agitate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• agitate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• agitate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Esperanto

Adverb

agitate

1. present adverbial passive participle of agiti

Ido

Verb

agitate

1. adverbial present passive participle of agitar

Italian

Adjective

agitate f

1. feminine plural of agitato

Anagrams

• gattaie

Latin

Verb

agit?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of agit?

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English, from Latin agitatus. Cognate with English agitate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??d??tet/

Verb

agitate (third-person singular present agitates, present participle agitatin, past agitatit, past participle agitate)

1. to agitate

References

• “agitate” in Eagle, Andy, editor, The Online Scots Dictionary^[1], 2016.