communicator

communicate +‎ -or

communicator (plural communicators)

1. Someone who, or something that communicates

   We'll let Nick give the presentation next week: he's a good communicator.

2. Any of several electronic devices that allow people with various disabilities to communicate via displays or artificial speech
3. (science fiction) A communications device.
   • 1934 August 1, Edward Elmer Smith, “Skylark of Valeron”, in Astounding Stories, volume 13, number 6:

     ‘Observation Officer of the Z12Q, attention!’ snapped from the tight-beam headquarters communicator. ‘Cut off those spy rays and report yourself under arrest for treason!’

   • 1968 January 12, Leonard Nimoy as Spock, A Piece of the Action (Star Trek), season 2, episode 17, written by David P. Harmon and Gene L. Coon:

     Captain, if the Iotians, who are very bright an imitative people, should take that communicator apart...

• (science fiction device): commlink

commūnicātor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of commūnicō
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of commūnicō

• communicator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• communicator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette