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語源

From ventilate +‎ -or; cf. Latin ventilator.

発音

• IPA: /ˈvɛntɪleɪtə/

名詞

ventilator (plural ventilators)

1. A device that circulates fresh air and expels stale or noxious air.
2. (medicine) A machine that moves breathable air into and out of the lungs of a patient who is unable to breathe sufficiently.

   Near-synonym: respirator

3. (figurative) Some behaviour or happening that relieves a tense atmosphere or situation.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Act of Parliament”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 188:

     A lover's quarrel is made up of jealousies, doubts, hopes, fears, and all sorts of fantastic fancies: a matrimonial dispute, on the contrary, is composed of familiar and ordinary matter, a sort of ventilator to the temper!

4. (obsolete, slang) A play or an actor so bad as to empty the theater.

派生語

参照

• Albert Barrère; Charles Godfrey Leland (1897), A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [wɛn.tɪˈɫaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ven.tiˈlaː.tor]

名詞

ventilātor m (genitive ventilātōris); third declension

1. winnower

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生した語

(Note: some terms are unsorted.)

動詞

ventilātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of ventilō

参照

• “ventilator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press