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From respirate +‎ -or.

respirator (plural respirators)

  1. A facemask designed to keep out harmful dusts, fumes, and mists.
    Hyponym: ventilator
    1. (occupational safety and health) A form of personal protective equipment, or PPE.

      The N95 respirator is designed to filter out 95 percent of particles 0.3 microns in size.

    2. A device designed to allow breathing when it would otherwise be hindered, as by a medical condition or the presence of poisonous vapors.

      The house painters were each officially required to wear a respirator, but this was sometimes disregarded in the extreme heat.

device to allow breathing

respirator c (singular definite respiratoren, plural indefinite respiratorer)

  1. respirator

respīrātor

  1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of respīrō

Borrowed from French respirateur.

  • IPA(key): /rɛs.piˈra.tɔr/
  • Rhymes: -atɔr
  • Syllabification: res‧pi‧ra‧tor

respirator m inan

  1. ventilator (machine that moves breathable air into and out of the lungs of a patient who is unable to breathe sufficiently)
  2. respirator (device designed to allow breathing when it would otherwise be hindered, as by a medical condition or the presence of poisonous vapors)
  • respirator in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • respirator in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French respiratoire. By surface analysis, respira +‎ -tor.

respirator m or n (feminine singular respiratoare, masculine plural respiratori, feminine and neuter plural respiratoare)

  1. respiratory
  • IPA(key): /respǐraːtor/
  • Hyphenation: res‧pi‧ra‧tor

respìrātor m (Cyrillic spelling респѝра̄тор)

  1. respirator

respirator c

  1. respirator
Declension of respirator 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative respirator respiratorn respiratorer respiratorerna
Genitive respirators respiratorns respiratorers respiratorernas