# dator
## Basque
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: /dator/ [d̪a.t̪or]
* Rhymes: -ator
* Hyphenation: da‧tor

### Verb

dator
* Third-person singular (hura) present indicative form of etorri (“to come”).

## Elfdalian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish dator (“computer”).

### Noun

dator m
* computer

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

### References

* Lars Steensland (2021) Älvdalsk Ordbok, 2nd edition, Älvdalen: Ulum Dalska, →ISBN

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *déh₃tōr (“giver, donor”), from the root *deh₃- (“to give”) (whence also Latin dō). Cognates include Ancient Greek δώτωρ (dṓtōr) and Sanskrit दातृ (dā́tar-).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈda.tor/, [ˈd̪ät̪ɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈda.tor/, [ˈd̪äːt̪or]

### Noun

dator m (genitive datōris); third declension
* Someone who gives; a giver, donor or patron
* (sports) a slave who hands the player the ball
    Antonym: factor

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Italian: datore
* Sicilian: daturi
* Portuguese: dador
* Spanish: dador

### Verb

dator
* second/third-person singular future passive imperative of dō

### References

* “dator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “dator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* dator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “dator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

## Romanian
### Alternative forms

* datoriu — archaic

### Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin root *debtoriu < *dēbitōrius for Latin dēbitor (“debtor”), ultimately from dēbitum (“debt”), from dēbeō (“to owe”); influenced by the verb da (“to give”). Compare Aromanian dãtor. Doublet of the borrowing debitor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /daˈtor/

### Adjective

dator m or n (feminine singular datoare, masculine plural datori, feminine and neuter plural datoare)
* indebted (to)
* obliged (to)
* owing money

#### Derived terms

* datora
* datorie
* datornic
* îndatora
* îndatorire
* îndatoritor

## Swedish
### Etymology

From data +‎ -or. Proposed in 1967 by professor Börje Langefors, as a parallel to doktor and traktor, based on data. Earlier Swedish words for computer were kalkylator, matematikmaskin, elektronhjärna and datamaskin, the later often colloquially abbreviated to data.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²dɑːtɔr/, /²dɑːtʊr/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -²ɑːtɔr, -²ɑːtʊr

### Noun

dator c
* a computer (data processing machine)
    Synonyms: (rare) datamaskin, data
* (rare) indefinite plural of data

#### Usage notes

* (computer): The somewhat common synonym data is usually proscribed.

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | dator | dators |
| singular | definite | datorn | datorns |
| plural | indefinite | datorer | datorers |
| plural | definite | datorerna | datorernas |

#### Related terms

* datorisera (“computerize”)
* datorisering (“computerization”)

#### Descendants

* → Latvian: dators
* → Elfdalian: dator

#### See also

* räknare (“[human] computer”)

### References

* dator in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* dator in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* Svensk MeSH
* “Hur kan man använda data och datan? [How are data and datan used?]”, in Frågelådan‎, Swedish Language Council, 2019 December 28 (last accessed)

### Anagrams

* ordat