propagator

English

Etymology

propagate +‎ -or

Noun

propagator (plural propagators)

A person who disseminates news or rumour
A person who propagates plants
A covered, sometimes heated container for germinating seeds or raising seedlings
(physics) A function that represents the quantum propagation of a subatomic particle

Translations

person who disseminates news or rumour

Finnish: propagoija (fi)

person who propagates plants

container for germinating seeds or raising seedlings

Finnish: idätysastia, idättämö

physics: function

Finnish: propagaattori

Latin

Verb

prōpāgātor

second-person singular future passive imperative of prōpāgō
third-person singular future passive imperative of prōpāgō

References

propagator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
propagator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
propagator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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