tabulator

See also: Tabulator, tabulátor, and tabülatör

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English tabulate

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Latin -ātor

Old French -eorbor.

Middle English -our

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Latin -torlbor.

English -or

English tabulator

From 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

person who tabulates

• Finnish: laskija (fi)
• Spanish: tabulador (es) m

mechanism on a typewriter

• Catalan: tabulador m
• Czech: tabulátor m
• Finnish: sarkain (fi), tabulaattori (fi)
• Greek: στηλοθέτης m (stilothétis)
• Russian: табуля́тор (ru) m (tabuljátor)

computing: early data processing machine

• Finnish: tabulaattori (fi)
• French: tabulatrice (fr) f
• Russian: табуля́тор (ru) m (tabuljátor)

Polish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.buˈla.tɔr/
• Rhymes: -atɔr
• Syllabification: ta‧bu‧la‧tor

Noun

tabulator m inan

1. tabulator (mechanism on a typewriter that sets the position of columns and borders)
2. (computing) tabulator (tab character)
3. (computing, historical) tabulator (early data processing machine that produces printed lists and totals from data on punched cards)

Declension

Declension of tabulator

	singular	plural
nominative	tabulator	tabulatory
genitive	tabulatora	tabulatorów
dative	tabulatorowi	tabulatorom
accusative	tabulator	tabulatory
instrumental	tabulatorem	tabulatorami
locative	tabulatorze	tabulatorach
vocative	tabulatorze	tabulatory

Further reading

• “tabulator”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tabulateur.

Noun

tabulator n (plural tabulatoare)

1. tabulator

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	tabulator	tabulatorul	tabulatoare	tabulatoarele
genitive-dative	tabulator	tabulatorului	tabulatoare	tabulatoarelor
vocative	tabulatorule		tabulatoarelor