# vibrator
## English
### Etymology

From New Latin vibrātor, from Latin vibrō (“to vibrate”). By surface analysis, vibrate +‎ -or.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /vaɪˈbɹeɪtə/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈvaɪbɹeɪtɚ/, [ˈvaɪ̯bɹeɪ̯ɾɚ]
* Hyphenation: vi‧bra‧tor
* Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

### Noun

vibrator (plural vibrators)
* A device that vibrates or causes vibration.
** A vibrating device used for massage or sexual stimulation.
    They recommend a vibrator because it's a safe alternative to sex.
*** 1988, Wendy Goldman, Judy Toll, Casual Sex?, spoken by Stacy (Lea Thompson):Mmm. I'm sick of my ‘Mighty Intruder’ vibrator with the flexible shaft and the textured head.
*** 1998 August 2, Nicole Avril, Susan Kolinsky, “The Turtle and the Hare”, in Sex and the City, season 1, episode 9, spoken by Charlotte:A vibrator does not call you on your birthday. A vibrator doesn't send you flowers the next day. You cannot take a vibrator home to meet your mother.
** (historical) A device designed to electromechanically interrupt current flowing to the step-up transformer which was used to generate the high tension positive supply in old battery-operated (automotive) valve radios.
** A trembler, as of an electric bell.
** A vibrating reed for transmitting or receiving pulsating currents in a harmonic telegraph system.
** A device for vibrating the pen of a siphon recorder to diminish frictional resistance on the paper.
** An oscillator.
** An ink-distributing roller in a printing machine, having an additional vibratory motion.
** A vibrating reed in a musical instrument, especially a reed organ.
** (weaving) Any of various vibrating devices, such as one for slackening the warp as a shed opens.
** An attachment, usually pneumatic, in a moulding machine to shake the pattern loose.

#### Hyponyms

* stick shaker
* cat

#### Derived terms

* bullet vibrator
* master vibrator

#### Related terms

* vibrate
* vibrant
* vibration

#### Translations

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#### Further reading

* “vibrator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* “vibrator”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vibrator. The sense for the sex toy probably derives from English vibrator.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌviˈbraː.tɔr/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: vi‧bra‧tor

### Noun

vibrator m (plural vibrators, diminutive vibratortje n)
* vibrator (vibrating sex toy)
* vibrator (any vibrating device)

#### Related terms

* vibratie
* vibreren

## Latin
### Verb

vibrātor
* second/third-person singular future passive imperative of vibrō

## Romanian
### Etymology

From vibra +‎ -tor.

### Noun

vibrator n (plural vibratori)
* dildo

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Noun

vibrator c
* vibrator (something that vibrates)
* vibrator (sex toy)
    Synonym: massagestav

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | vibrator | vibrators |
| singular | definite | vibratorn | vibratorns |
| plural | indefinite | vibratorer | vibratorers |
| plural | definite | vibratorerna | vibratorernas |

#### See also

* sexleksak (“sex toy”)

### References

* vibrator in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* vibrator in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* vibrator in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)