different between mediator vs modulator

English

Alternative forms

• mediatour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medi?tor (“one who mediates”), from medi?tum, supine of medi? (“be in the middle”), from medius (“middle”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?midie?t?/

Noun

mediator (plural mediators)

1. One who negotiates between parties seeking mutual agreement.
2. A chemical substance transmitting information to a targeted cell.

Synonyms

• negotiator

Hyponyms

• (female): mediatress, mediatrix

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• admire to

Danish

Noun

mediator c (singular definite mediatoren, plural indefinite mediatorer)

1. mediator

Declension

Further reading

• “mediator” in Den Danske Ordbog

Latin

Etymology

From medi?tum, supine of medi? (“be in the middle”), from medius (“middle”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

medi?tor m (genitive medi?t?ris, feminine medi?tr?x); third declension

1. mediator, intermediary, go-between

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• mediator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mediator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• mediator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medi?tor.

Noun

mediator m (plural mediatori, feminine equivalent mediatoare)

1. mediator#English, intermediary

Synonyms

• intermediar, mijlocitor

Related terms

• media

English

Etymology

modulate +? -or

Noun

modulator (plural modulators)

1. A person who modulates.
2. A device or thing that modulates.
   • 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English

     [Poetry] is a most musicall Modulator of all Intelligibles by her inventive Variations, undulling their Grossenesse, and subliming it into more refined Acceptablenesse to our own, or others understandings.

3. (music) A chart in the tonic sol-fa notation on which the modulations or changes from one scale to another are shown by the relative position of the notes.

Translations

Latin

Verb

modul?tor

1. second-person singular future active imperative of modulor
2. third-person singular future active imperative of modulor

References

• modulator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• modulator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• modulator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• modulator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

From French modulateur

Noun

modulator n (plural modulatori)

1. modulator

Declension