rotator

From rotate + -or.

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• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

rotator (plural rotators)

1. One who or that which rotates.
2. (anatomy) A muscle by which a joint can be rotated.
3. A revolving reverberatory furnace.
4. (Internet) A banner ad that cycles through multiple advertisements.

• (astronomy): super rotator

• Tortora

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [rɔˈtaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [roˈtaː.tor]

rotātor

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

• “rotator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rotator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from French rotateur.

rotator m or n (feminine singular rotatoare, masculine plural rotatori, feminine/neuter plural rotatoare)

1. rotatory