revolver
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From revolve + -er, coined by American inventor Samuel Colt in 1835.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]revolver (plural revolvers)
- (firearms) A handgun with a revolving chamber enabling several shots to be fired without reloading.
- Synonyms: wheelgun, Colt
- Hyponyms: six-gun, six-shooter
- (by extension) Any (personal) firearm with such a mechanism.
- (finance) Synonym of revolving line of credit, a form of credit permitting the holder to repeatedly borrow money.
- 2023 December 16, “Musk told lenders they would not lose money on Twitter deal”, in FT Weekend, Companies & Markets, page 10:
- The debt is split between $6.5bn of term loans, as well as $6bn of senior and junior bonds and a $500mn revolver.
- agent noun of revolve; something that revolves.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: revòlver
- → Chuvash: ляворвăр (ljavorvăr)
- → Crimean Tatar: revolver
- → Danish: revolver
- → Dutch: revolver
- → Esperanto: revolvero
- → Finnish: revolveri
- → French: revolver
- → Gagauz: livorver
- → Galician: revólver
- → German: Revolver
- → Hungarian: revolver
- → Italian: revolver
- → Japanese: リボルバー (riborubā)
- Norwegian:
- → Polish: rewolwer
- → Portuguese: revólver
- → Russian: револьвер (revolʹver)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- → Spanish: revólver
- → Swedish: revolver
- → Urum: levorver
- → Yiddish: רעוואָלווער (revolver)
Translations
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References
[edit]- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “revolver”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading
[edit]Crimean Tatar
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English revolver.
Noun
[edit]revolver
Declension
[edit]nominative | revolver |
---|---|
genitive | revolverniñ |
dative | revolverge |
accusative | revolverni |
locative | revolverde |
ablative | revolverden |
References
[edit]- Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary][1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
Czech
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]revolver m inan
- revolver (handgun)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | revolver | revolvery |
genitive | revolveru | revolverů |
dative | revolveru | revolverům |
accusative | revolver | revolvery |
vocative | revolvere | revolvery |
locative | revolveru | revolverech |
instrumental | revolverem | revolvery |
Related terms
[edit]- See voluta
Further reading
[edit]- “revolver”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
- “revolver”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English revolver.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]revolver m (plural revolvers, diminutive revolvertje n)
Hypernyms
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English revolver.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]revolver m (plural revolvers)
- revolver (gun)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “revolver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “revolver” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English revolver.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]revolver (plural revolverek)
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | revolver | revolverek |
accusative | revolvert | revolvereket |
dative | revolvernek | revolvereknek |
instrumental | revolverrel | revolverekkel |
causal-final | revolverért | revolverekért |
translative | revolverré | revolverekké |
terminative | revolverig | revolverekig |
essive-formal | revolverként | revolverekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | revolverben | revolverekben |
superessive | revolveren | revolvereken |
adessive | revolvernél | revolvereknél |
illative | revolverbe | revolverekbe |
sublative | revolverre | revolverekre |
allative | revolverhez | revolverekhez |
elative | revolverből | revolverekből |
delative | revolverről | revolverekről |
ablative | revolvertől | revolverektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
revolveré | revolvereké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
revolveréi | revolverekéi |
Possessive forms of revolver | ||
---|---|---|
possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | revolverem | revolvereim |
2nd person sing. | revolvered | revolvereid |
3rd person sing. | revolvere | revolverei |
1st person plural | revolverünk | revolvereink |
2nd person plural | revolveretek | revolvereitek |
3rd person plural | revolverük | revolvereik |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- revolver in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English revolver.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]revolver m (invariable)
- revolver (handgun)
- Synonyms: pistola a tamburo, pistola a rotazione, rivoltella
- rotating attachment, on a camera, having multiple lenses
References
[edit]- ^ revolver in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English revolver.
Noun
[edit]revolver m (definite singular revolveren, indefinite plural revolvere, definite plural revolverne)
- a revolver
- Han fikk tak i en revolver.
- He got hold of a revolver.
References
[edit]- “revolver” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English revolver.
Noun
[edit]revolver m (definite singular revolveren, indefinite plural revolverar, definite plural revolverane)
- a revolver
- Han fekk tak i ein revolver.
- He got hold of a revolver.
- Han fekk tak i ein revolver.
References
[edit]- “revolver” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin revolvere (“to turn over, to roll back, to reflect upon”), from re- (“back, again”) + volvō (“roll”).
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: re‧vol‧ver
Verb
[edit]revolver (first-person singular present revolvo, first-person singular preterite revolvi, past participle revolvido, short past participle revolto)
Conjugation
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French revolver.
Noun
[edit]revolver n (plural revolvere)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) revolver | revolverul | (niște) revolvere | revolverele |
genitive/dative | (unui) revolver | revolverului | (unor) revolvere | revolverelor |
vocative | revolverule | revolverelor |
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English revolver.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]revòlver m (Cyrillic spelling рево̀лвер)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | revolver | revolveri |
genitive | revolvera | revolvera |
dative | revolveru | revolverima |
accusative | revolver | revolvere |
vocative | revolveru | revolveri |
locative | revolveru | revolverima |
instrumental | revolverom | revolverima |
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin revolvere (“turn over, roll back, reflect upon”), from re- (“back, again”) + volvō (“roll”). Cognate with English revolve although a false friend.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]revolver (first-person singular present revuelvo, first-person singular preterite revolví, past participle revuelto)
- to stir, to mix
- to jumble up, to disarrange
- to turn over, to poke about, to rummage around in
- to consider, to turn over, to ponder
- to disturb, to stir up, to upset
- to swing around
- to wrap, to wrap up
- to turn 360 degrees, to revolve
Usage notes
[edit]- Revolver is a false friend, and does not mean a type of gun in Spanish. The Spanish word for that English meaning of revolver is revólver.
Conjugation
[edit]These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “revolver”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English revolver.
Noun
[edit]revolver c
- a revolver (firearm)
Declension
[edit]Declension of revolver | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | revolver | revolvern | revolvrar | revolvrarna |
Genitive | revolvers | revolverns | revolvrars | revolvrarnas |
Derived terms
[edit]- revolverman (“gunslinger”)
References
[edit]- English terms suffixed with -er
- English coinages
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɒlvə(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/ɒlvə(ɹ)/3 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Firearms
- en:Finance
- English terms with quotations
- English agent nouns
- en:Rotation
- en:Weapons
- Crimean Tatar terms borrowed from English
- Crimean Tatar terms derived from English
- Crimean Tatar lemmas
- Crimean Tatar nouns
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Czech lemmas
- Czech nouns
- Czech masculine nouns
- Czech inanimate nouns
- Czech masculine inanimate nouns
- Czech hard masculine inanimate nouns
- cs:Firearms
- Dutch terms borrowed from English
- Dutch terms derived from English
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -s
- Dutch masculine nouns
- French terms borrowed from English
- French terms derived from English
- French 3-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Firearms
- Hungarian terms borrowed from English
- Hungarian terms derived from English
- Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Hungarian/ɛr
- Rhymes:Hungarian/ɛr/3 syllables
- Hungarian lemmas
- Hungarian nouns
- hu:Weapons
- Italian terms borrowed from English
- Italian terms derived from English
- Italian 3-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ɔlver
- Rhymes:Italian/ɔlver/3 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian indeclinable nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål terms borrowed from English
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from English
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål terms with usage examples
- nb:Weapons
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms borrowed from English
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from English
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns
- nn:Weapons
- Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese 4-syllable words
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese verbs
- Portuguese verbs ending in -er
- Portuguese verbs with irregular short past participle
- Romanian terms borrowed from French
- Romanian terms derived from French
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian neuter nouns
- Serbo-Croatian terms borrowed from English
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from English
- Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns
- sh:Weapons
- Spanish terms inherited from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/eɾ
- Rhymes:Spanish/eɾ/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish verbs
- Spanish verbs ending in -er
- Spanish irregular verbs
- Spanish verbs with o-ue alternation
- Swedish terms borrowed from English
- Swedish terms derived from English
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- sv:Firearms