# calculator
## English
### Etymology

In the sense of a person, from Middle English calkelatour (“mathematician, astrologer”), borrowed from Latin calculātor, equivalent to calculate +‎ -or. The other meanings arose in Modern English.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkæl.kjə.leɪ.tə(ɹ)/
* (General American) IPA: /kæl.kjə.leɪ.tɚ/, [ˈkʰæɫ.kjəˌleɪ̯.ɾɚ]
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

calculator (plural calculators)
* A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations; sometimes, an electronic one specifically.
    Hypernyms: device, machine
    Hyponym: adding machine (coordinate to the narrower sense)
    Coordinate term: abacus
    electronic calculator;   pocket calculator
    The calculator on a bookkeeper's desk in the 1950s was an adding machine with mechanical guts.
    I told him to hand me a calculator and he jokingly placed an adding machine at my side.
* (dated) A person who performs mathematical calculation.
    Synonyms: computer (archaic), reckoner (archaic)
    During the war, his grandmother had worked at the Bletchley Park decoding station as a calculator.
** 2020, Paul Krugman, Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future, page 145:First, many real-world investors bear little resemblance to the cool calculators of efficient-market theory: they're all too subject to herd behavior, to bouts of irrational exuberance and unwarranted panic.
* A person who calculates (in the sense of scheming).
    Near-synonyms: schemer, plotter; manipulator
    He revealed himself to be a cold-blooded calculator out to sabotage his colleagues.
** 1838, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter X, in Alice or The Mysteries […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, book I, page 92:Talk not thus, I implore you, Evelyn: do not imagine me the worldly calculator that my enemies deem me.
** 1858, John Cumming, Thy Word is Truth: an apology for Christianity, page 112:You have in the merchant the shrewd calculator of probable contingencies; we shall see that we have in the prophet the absolute proclaimer of necessary and inevitable facts.
* (obsolete) A set of mathematical tables.
    Synonym: ready reckoner

#### Derived terms

* calculatorlike
* electronic calculator
* graphing calculator
* human calculator
* mental calculator
* minicalculator
* pocket calculator
* scientific calculator

#### Related terms

* calculate

#### Translations
### See also

* ready reckoner
* slide rule
* tables
* Category:calculators on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

### References

* James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Calculator”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume II (C), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 27–28, column 3.

## Cebuano
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English calculator.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kalkjuˈleitoɾ/ [kɐl̪.kjʊˈl̪iɪ.t̪oɾ̪]

### Noun

calculator (Badlit spelling ᜃᜎ᜔ᜃ᜔ᜌᜓᜎᜒᜌ᜔ᜆᜓᜇ᜔)
* calculator (device)
    Synonyms: calcu, kalkulador

## Latin
### Etymology

From calculō (“I calculate”) +‎ -tor.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /kal.kuˈlaː.tor/, [käɫ̪kʊˈɫ̪äːt̪ɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /kal.kuˈla.tor/, [kälkuˈläːt̪or]

### Noun

calculātor m (genitive calculātōris, feminine calculātrīx); third declension
* calculator, bookkeeper, accountant
* computer, one versed in/teacher of arithmetic

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Synonyms

* calculātrīx

### Verb

calculātor
* second-person singular future passive imperative of calculō
** "thou shalt be calculated, thou shalt be computed"
** (figuratively) "thou shalt be considered as, thou shalt be esteemed"
* third-person singular future passive imperative of calculō
** "it shall be calculated, it shall be computed"
** (figuratively) "she shall be considered as, she shall be esteemed"

#### Descendants

* → Ancient Greek: καλκουλάτωρ (kalkoulátōr)

### References

* “calculator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* "calculator", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* calculator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “calculator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “calculator”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French calculateur; compare also English and Latin calculator. Equivalent to calcula +‎ -tor.

### Noun

calculator n (plural calculatoare)
* calculator (device)
* computer
    Synonyms: computer, ordinator