# ventilator
## English
### Etymology

From ventilate +‎ -or; cf. Latin ventilator.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvɛntɪleɪtə/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Noun

ventilator (plural ventilators)
* A device that circulates fresh air and expels stale or noxious air.
* (medicine) A machine that moves breathable air into and out of the lungs of a patient who is unable to breathe sufficiently.
    Hypernym: respirator
* (figurative) Some behaviour or happening that relieves a tense atmosphere or situation.
** 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Act of Parliament”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 188:A lover's quarrel is made up of jealousies, doubts, hopes, fears, and all sorts of fantastic fancies: a matrimonial dispute, on the contrary, is composed of familiar and ordinary matter, a sort of ventilator to the temper!
* (obsolete, slang) A play or an actor so bad as to empty the theater.

#### Derived terms

* screw ventilator
* tank ventilator

#### References

* Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1897) A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant

## Danish
### Noun

ventilator c (singular definite ventilatoren, plural indefinite ventilatorer)
* fan, ventilator (device that circulates fresh air)

#### Derived terms

* ventilatorrem

### Further reading

* “ventilator” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English ventilator.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɛntiˈlaːtɔr/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ven‧ti‧la‧tor

### Noun

ventilator m (plural ventilatoren or ventilators, diminutive ventilatortje n)
* fan, ventilator (device that circulates fresh air)

#### Related terms

* ventilatie
* ventileren

### References

* van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “ventilator”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

### Further reading

* ventilator on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{nl}$

## Latin
### Etymology

From ventilō (“to expose to a draught”) +‎ -tor.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /u̯en.tiˈlaː.tor/, [u̯ɛn̪t̪ɪˈɫ̪äːt̪ɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ven.tiˈla.tor/, [ven̪t̪iˈläːt̪or]

### Noun

ventilātor m (genitive ventilātōris); third declension
* winnower

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: ventilador
* → Dutch: ventilator
* → English: ventilator
* → French: ventilateur
* → Portuguese: ventilador
* → Romanian: ventilator
* → Russian: вентиля́тор (ventiljátor)
* → Serbo-Croatian: ventìlātor/вентѝла̄тор
* → Spanish: ventilador

### Verb

ventilātor
* second/third-person singular future passive imperative of ventilō

### References

* “ventilator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

## Occitan
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Gascony):(file)

### Noun

ventilator m (plural ventilators) (Limousin)
* ventilator, fan

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French ventilateur. Equivalent to ventila +‎ -tor.

### Noun

ventilator n (plural ventilatoare)
* ventilator, fan

#### See also

* evantai

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

From ventilírati.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʋentǐlaːtor/
* Hyphenation: ven‧ti‧la‧tor

### Noun

ventìlātor m (Cyrillic spelling вентѝла̄тор)
* fan, ventilator

#### Declension
### References

* “ventilator”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025