different between inventor vs generator

English

Alternative forms

• inventour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inventor.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?v?nt?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?v?nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?(?)

Noun

inventor (plural inventors)

1. One who invents, either as a hobby or as an occupation.

Coordinate terms

• inventress
• inventrix

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• noverint

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inventor, invent?rem.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /im.v?n?to/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /im.b?n?to/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /im.ven?to?/

Adjective

inventor (feminine inventora, masculine plural inventors, feminine plural inventores)

1. inventive

Noun

inventor m (plural inventors, feminine inventora)

1. inventor

Related terms

Further reading

• “inventor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “inventor” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “inventor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “inventor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inventor, invent?rem.

Noun

inventor m (plural inventores, feminine inventora, feminine plural inventoras)

1. inventor

Related terms

• inventar

Further reading

• “inventor” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Latin

Etymology

From inveni? +? -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /in?u?en.tor/, [?n?u??n?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in?ven.tor/, [in?v?n?t??r]

Noun

inventor m (genitive invent?ris, feminine inventr?x); third declension

1. contriver, author, discoverer, inventor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• inventio

Descendants

References

• inventor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• inventor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• inventor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• inventor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inventor, invent?rem.

Noun

inventor m (plural inventores, feminine inventora, feminine plural inventoras)

1. inventor (one who invents things)

Related terms

Romanian

Etymology

From French inventeur.

Noun

inventor m (plural inventori)

1. (dated) inventor

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inventor, invent?rem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /imben?to?/, [?m.b?n??t?o?]

Noun

inventor m (plural inventores, feminine inventora or inventriz, feminine plural inventoras or inventrices)

1. inventor (one who invents things)

Related terms

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From Latin, from past participle of genero (“beget, father”)

Noun

generator (plural generators)

1. One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
   1. (chemistry) An apparatus in which vapour or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort etc.
   2. (music) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- see also generating tone.
   3. (mathematics) An element of a group that is used in the presentation of the group: one of the elements from which the others can be inferred with the given relators.
   4. (geometry) One of the lines of a ruled surface; more generally, an element of some family of linear spaces.
   5. (programming) A subordinate piece of code which, given some initial parameters, will generate multiple output values on request.
2. A piece of apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.
   1. Especially, a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.

Antonyms

• (one which generates): extinguisher

Derived terms

• steam generator
• traffic generator
• wind generator

Translations

Latin

Verb

gener?tor

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

References

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin generare

Noun

generator m (definite singular generatoren, indefinite plural generatorer, definite plural generatorene)

1. a generator

Derived terms

• vindgenerator

References

• “generator” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin generare

Noun

generator m (definite singular generatoren, indefinite plural generatorar, definite plural generatorane)

1. a generator

Derived terms

• vindgenerator

References

• “generator” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.