suppressor
/səˈpɹesə/suh-PREH-sur
UK form converted from the US by rule · unchecked/səˈpɹɛsɚ/suh-PREH-sur
Meaningone that suppresses
Common meaning: a device that muffles or stops something
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- supunder, up from below (form of sub-)
- pressto pressLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1440 · scan
- oragent ending: the doer, or the device that does it
‘under, up from below (form of sub-)’ + ‘to press’ → suppressor
Journey through time
- Latinpremō, pressī, pressum‘to press’
- Englishsuppress‘to hold down or stop’
- Englishformed in English from suppresssuppressor‘a device that muffles or stops something’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Formed in English from suppress + -or.
Dictionary: Skeat (1898), SUPPRESS, p.612 · scan
Roots
- premō, pressī, pressum Latin “to press”
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