EuroLex/E/Transmitter

transmitter

  • Original language: English
  • Original form and meaning: n. 2 'a set of equipment used to generate and transmit electromagnetic waves carrying messages, signals, etc.', 3 'a neurotransmitter (biol.)'


(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


Language Form Date of Borrowing (and Obsolescence) Current Meaning and Status Earlier Meanings and Statusses Source
Catalan ... ... '...' '...' ...
Croatian transmitter [= English] mid20c 2, status: restricted use: technical; dito ...
Czech ... ... '...' '...' ...
Danish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Dutch transmittor (2)/transmitter [transmitər] 1980s 2, status: word comes from other source than English; 3, status: restricted use: technical; dito ...
English ... ... '...' '...' ...
Estonian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Finnish ... ... '...' '...' ...
French < transmetteur (2) ... '...' '...' ...
Frisian ... ... '...' '...' ...
German transmitter [transmita] beg20c/1980s beg20c: 2; 1980s: 3, status: restricted use: technical, rare; dito ...
Hungarian transzmitter [transmitter] 20c 3, status: restricted use: technical; dito ...
Irish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Italian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Latvian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Lithuanian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Maltese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Norwegian transmitter [transmiter] 20c 2,3, status: restricted use: technical; dito ...
Polish transmitter ... 2, status: word comes from other source than English: Latin; '...' ...
Portuguese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Rumantsch ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovak ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovenian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Spanish < transmisor ... '...' '...' ...
Swedish ... ... '...' '...' ...
  • Annotations: * DEA = Dictionary of European Anglicisms by Manfred Görlach (2001), Oxford: OUP.; ** CODEE = The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology by T.F. Hoad (1986), Oxford: Clarendon.
  • Information on Other Languages: Icelandic: < sendir, senditœki (2); Romanian: < transmitator (2); Russian: transmitter, beg20c, meaning: 2, status: restricted use: technical; Bulgarian: transmiter, mid20c, meaning: 2, status: restricted use: technical; Albanian: < transmetues;,