# router
## English
### Etymology 1

From route +‎ -er.

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɹuː.tə(ɹ)/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈɹu.tɚ/, /ˈɹaʊ.tɚ/
* Audio (UK):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)

#### Noun

router (plural routers)
* Someone who routes or directs items from one location to another.
    The router directed the movement of the company's trucks.
** 1930, Edwin A. Godley, Alexander Kaylin, Control of Retail Store Operations‎, page 213:When the router receives the package, he places the route number on it as well as on the triplicate part of the attached salescheck.
** 1963, Louis J. von Rago, Production Analysis and Control‎, page 476:Obviously, the production control department might consist of one man or it might occupy a score of production control experts: routers, schedulers, expediters, and dispatchers.
** 1990, Mary Kay Allen, Omar Keith Helferich, Putting Expert Systems to Work in Logistics‎, page 66:The system benefits include reduced delivery costs, increased vehicle use, and improved route decision making by dispatchers and routers.
* (telecommunications) Any device that directs packets of information using the equivalent of Open Systems Interconnection layer 3 (network layer) information. Most commonly used in reference to Internet Protocol routers.
* (Internet) A device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet by, at minimum, selectively passing those datagrams having a destination IP address to the network which is able to deliver them to their destination; a network gateway.
    The router was configured to forward packets outside of a certain range of IP addresses to its internet uplink port.
* (electronics, electronic design automation) In integrated circuit or printed circuit board design, an algorithm for adding all wires needed to properly connect all of the placed components while obeying all design rules.

##### Derived terms

* one-armed router
* onion router
* router on a stick

##### Descendants

* → Japanese: ルーター, ルータ
* → Korean: 라우터 (rauteo)

##### See also

* firewall
* routing (EDA) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Etymology 2

From rout +‎ -er.

#### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈɹaʊtə(ɹ)/
* (US) IPA: /ˈɹaʊtɚ/
* Rhymes: -aʊtə(ɹ)

#### Noun

router (plural routers)
* A power tool used in carpentry for cutting grooves.
    He made an attractive edge on the table with a router.
* A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.
* A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.

##### Derived terms

* plunge router

##### See also

* wood router on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

#### Verb

router (third-person singular simple present routers, present participle routering, simple past and past participle routered)
* to hollow out or cut using a router power tool.
** 1952, John Hooper, Percy A. Wells, Modern Cabinetwork, Furniture and Fitments, page 132:An alternative is shown in which the carcase ends are grooved by routering.
** 2000, Ernest Joyce, Alan Peters, Patrick Spielman, Encyclopedia of Furniture Making, page 290:Figures 276: 10, 11 are typical sliding flush door pulls, the former routered out, but the latter can be turned in a lathe, while 276:12 is an oblong routered version.
** 2007, Laurie J. Gage, Rebecca S. Duerr, Hand-Rearing Birds, page 352:Routered holes may also be filled with diluted maple syrup (1 part syrup to 9 parts water) to create a sap well for sapsuckers.

### Anagrams

* retour, roture, tourer

## Chinese
### Etymology

From English router.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɹaːu̯⁵⁵ tʰaː³⁵/

### Noun

router
* (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet) router

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English router.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈru(ː)tər/, /ˈrɑu̯tər/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: rou‧ter
* Rhymes: -utər, -ɑu̯tər

### Noun

router m (plural routers, diminutive routertje n)
* (Internet) router (networking device)

## French
### Etymology

From route +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁu.te/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

router
* to route

#### Derived terms

* routage
* routeur

### Further reading

* “router”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* retour, trouer

## Polish
### Alternative forms

* ruter

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English router.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈru.tɛr/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -utɛr
* Syllabification: rou‧ter

### Noun

router m inan
* (Internet) router (device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet)
    Synonym: trasownik

#### Declension
### Further reading

* router in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* router in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English router.

### Pronunciation

* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʁu.tɐɾ/, /ˈʁaw.tɐɾ/
* Hyphenation: rou‧ter

### Noun

router m (plural routers)
* (Portugal, networking) router (device that directs packets of information using OSI layer 3)
    Synonym: (Brazil) roteador

### References

“router”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* rúter

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English router.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈruteɾ/ [ˈru.t̪eɾ]
** Rhymes: -uteɾ
* IPA: /ˈrauteɾ/ [ˈrau̯.t̪eɾ]
** Rhymes: -auteɾ

### Noun

router m (plural routers or router)
* router
    Synonyms: enrutador, direccionador, encaminador

#### Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

### Further reading

* “router”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Noun

router c
* (telecommunications) a router

#### Declension
### Noun

router
* definite singular of route

### References

* router in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* router in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)