splitter

See also: Splitter

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English split

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

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Latin -ārius

Old French -ierbor.

Middle English -er

English -er

English splitter

From split + -er.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsplɪtə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsplɪtɚ/, [ˈsplɪɾɚ]
• Rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

splitter (plural splitters)

1. A person or a thing that splits.
2. A wedge used to cut logs down the middle.
3. A quarry worker who splits slate into sheets.
4. (colloquial) A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to split categories such as species or dialects up into smaller groups.

   Hyponym: species-monger

5. (baseball) A split-finger fastball.
6. (graphical user interface) A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
7. (US) A wheaten cake split and buttered when hot.
8. One who splits hairs in argument, etc.
9. A device with two electrical plugs that plugs into an electrical outlet, effectively converting the electrical outlet into two; socket converter.
10. (geometry) A line segment through one of the vertices of a triangle that bisects the perimeter of the triangle.

    Coordinate term: cleaver

Synonyms

• (GUI): sash

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “one who prefers to split categories”): lumper

Derived terms

• beam splitter
• hair-splitter
• hairsplitter
• log splitter
• middle splitter
• sidesplitter
• skull splitter
• splitter bus
• splittercore
• splitterism
• Splitters Creek
• thumb splitter
• Y-splitter

Translations

A device with two electrical plugs that plugs into an electrical outlet, effectively converting the electrical outlet into two; socket converter.

• Czech: rozdvojka (cs) f
• Spanish: adaptador divisor m

Further reading

• “splitter”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.
• “splitter”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “splitter”, in Merriam-Webster Online, Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, Inc., 1996–present.
• “splitter”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

Anagrams

• triplets, pretilts, Triplets, Spittler

Danish

Verb

splitter

1. present of splitte

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Verb

splitter

1. inflection of splittern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Danish splitter- and German splitter- (inseparable in both languages).

Adverb

splitter

1. completely, entirely

   splitter naken ― stark naked, starkers (UK)

   splitter ny ― brand new

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

splitter m

1. indefinite plural of splitt

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

splitter

1. present of splitte

References

• “splitter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Danish splitter- and German splitter- (used in compound form in both languages).

Adverb

splitter

1. completely, entirely

   splitter naken ― stark naked, starkers (UK)

   splitter ny ― brand new

References

• “splitter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Splitter (“splinter”).

Adverb

splitter (not comparable)

1. utterly, totally

   Synonym: sprillans

   splitter ny

   brand new

Derived terms

• splitt
• splitterny
• spritt

Noun

splitter n

1. shrapnel, shard

Declension

Declension of splitter

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	splitter	splitters
	definite	splittret	splittrets
plural	indefinite	splitter	splitters
	definite	splittren	splittrens

Derived terms

• bombsplitter
• glassplitter
• granatsplitter
• splitterbomb
• splitterfri
• splitterskada
• splitterskydd
• splittersäker

Related terms

• splittra

References

• “splitter”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “splitter”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “splitter”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• splitter in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)