different between modulator vs modulatory

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

English

Adjective

modulatory (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to modulation.