different between tabulator vs fabulator

English

Etymology

tabulate +? -or

Noun

tabulator (plural tabulators)

1. A person who counts or tabulates things.
2. The mechanism on a typewriter that sets the position of columns and borders.
3. (computing) A tab character.
   • 2004, Kari Laitinen, A Natural Introduction to Computer Programming with C# (page 110)

     You can put a tabulator in all those places where a space is allowed. A tabulator character corresponds to, for example, 4 spaces in the program editor.

4. (computing, historical) An early data processing machine that produces printed lists and totals from data on punched cards.

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French tabulateur

Noun

tabulator n (plural tabulatoare)

1. tabulator

Declension

English

Noun

fabulator (plural fabulators)

1. (dated) One who writes, studies or recites fables frequently; often professionally

Synonyms

• author
• storyteller

Latin

Etymology

From f?bulor +? -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fa?.bu?la?.tor/, [fä?b????ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fa.bu?la.tor/, [f?bu?l??t??r]

Noun

f?bul?tor m (genitive f?bul?t?ris); third declension

1. storyteller

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Verb

f?bul?tor

1. second-person singular future active imperative of f?bulor
2. third-person singular future active imperative of f?bulor

References

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