excavateur

== French == === Etymology === Calque of English excavator. === Pronunciation === === Noun === excavateur m (plural excavateurs) excavator (vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc; a backhoe) Synonym: excavatrice ==== Descendants ==== → Romanian: excavator → Turkish: ekskavatör === Further reading === “excavateur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012