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disambiguator en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌdɪ.samˈbɪɡ.juːeɪt.ə/ (UK)
• /ˈdiːsamˌbɪɡ.juːeɪt.ɚ/ (General-American)
• /ˌdɪs.amˈbɪɡ.juːeɪt.ə/ (Australia)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ ▲ Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des-bor. ▲ Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts? Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder. Proto-Italic *amβi- Latin ambi- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin ambig(ō) Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Italic *-wos Latin -uus Latin ambiguuslbor. English ambigu(ous) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English ambiguate English disambiguate Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin -ātor Old French -eorbor. Middle English -our ▲ Latin -torlbor. English -or English disambiguator From disambiguate + -or.

Meanings

1. Anything that serves to disambiguate.
   • Those nouns, adjectives and verbs which only occurred with one of the senses were extracted from this list but only nouns were used as additional potential disambiguators in a differential list. 1998, Edda Weigand, Contrastive Lexical Semantics, page 257:
2. A program that determines the meaning of a term from the context in which it is used

Forms