different between automat vs automaton

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Automat, as the system was originally developed in Germany.

Noun

automat (plural automats)

1. A vending machine for food.
2. A cafeteria consisting of vending machines.

Alternative forms

• Automat

Related terms

• automatic
• automation
• automatization
• automaton

Albanian

Noun

automat m

1. automaton (machine, robot, or formal system)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?au?tomat]

Noun

automat m

1. automaton
2. vending machine, automat

Declension

Derived terms

• kone?ný automat m

Related terms

• automatický m
• automatika f

Further reading

• automat in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• automat in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (autómatos).

Noun

automat c (singular definite automaten, plural indefinite automater)

1. kiosk
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Declension

Derived terms

• billettautomat
• spilleautomat

Related terms

• automatvåben

References

• “automat” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?.tu.ma?t/, [æ?.t?.?ma?t]

Noun

automat m (definite singular automaten, indefinite plural automater, definite plural automatene)

1. vending machine

Derived terms

• billettautomat
• spilleautomat

References

• “automat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (autómaton), neuter of ????????? (autómatos, “self moving, self willed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ?t??m??t/

Noun

automat m (definite singular automaten, indefinite plural automatar, definite plural automatane)

1. an automaton
   • 1908, Rasmus Løland, Den store automaten:

     "Skulde segja at frøkna ikkje er heime," tok gjentungen berre upp atter som ein automat og stod ferdig til aa slaa att døri.

     "I was to say she is not at home," the girl simply repeated like an automaton, ready to close the door.

2. a slot machine (gambling machine, vending machine and similar)

Derived terms

• billettautomat

References

• “automat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From German Automat, from Latin automatus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aw?t?.mat/

Noun

automat m inan

1. vending machine, automat
2. automatic setting on a device, e.g. a photo camera
3. automaton
4. (informal) automatic transmission
5. (dated) machine gun

Declension

Further reading

• automat in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• automat in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French automate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.u.to?mat/

Adjective

automat m or n (feminine singular automat?, masculine plural automa?i, feminine and neuter plural automate)

1. automatic, self-acting, inertial

Declension

Noun

automat n (plural automate)

1. automaton
2. vending machine
3. golem
4. clockwork

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aut?ma?t/
• Hyphenation: a?u?to?mat

Noun

autòm?t m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. automaton
2. vending machine, automat

Declension

Swedish

Noun

automat c

1. automaton
2. vending machine
3. kiosk; an unattended stand for the automatic dispensation of tickets

Declension

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (autómaton), neuter of ????????? (autómatos, “self moving, self willed”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ô-t?m'?-t?n, ô-t?m'?-t?n, IPA^(key): /???t?m?t?n/, /???t?m??t?n/
• IPA^(key): /??t?m??t?n/

Noun

automaton (plural automatons or automata)

1. A machine or robot designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 9,

     Nick had heard her play through the very beginning of it a dozen times, until he was screaming at her in his head to go on. Well, now she did, watching her own hands busying up and down the keyboard as if they were astonishing automata that she had wound up and set in motion, in perfect synchrony, to produce this silvery flow of sound.

2. A person who acts like a machine or robot, often defined as having a monotonous lifestyle and lacking in emotion.

   Due to her strict adherence to her daily schedule, Jessica was becoming more and more convinced that she was an automaton.

   • July 12, 1816, Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Kercheval Monticello

     A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on 'til the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering.

3. A formal system, such as a finite-state machine or cellular automaton.
4. A toy in the form of a mechanical figure.
5. (dated) The self-acting power of the muscular and nervous systems, by which movement is effected without intelligent determination.

Hyponyms

• robot

Derived terms

• auton
• cellular automaton

Related terms

Translations

Latin

Alternative forms

• automatum

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????????? (autómaton), neuter of ????????? (autómatos, “self-moving, self-willed”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /au??to.ma.ton/, [äu??t??mät??n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /au??to.ma.ton/, [?u??t???m?t??n]

Noun

automaton n (genitive automat?); second declension

1. automaton
2. contraption
3. device

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

References

• aut?m?tus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• automaton in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette