ordinateur

== French == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin ōrdinātōrem (“one who orders”), from ōrdinō (“to order, organize”). In its application to computing, it was coined by the professor of philology Jacques Perret in a letter dated 16 April 1955, in response to a request from IBM France, who believed the word calculateur was too restrictive in light of the possibilities of these machines. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɔʁ.di.na.tœʁ/ Homophone: ordinateurs === Noun === ordinateur m (plural ordinateurs) (computing) a computer, a computing device. [from 1955] Synonyms: calculateur, ordi Hyponyms: micro, micro-ordinateur, mini-ordinateur, PC Il a un ordinateur. ― He has a computer. Elle est à l’ordinateur. ― She is at the computer. (archaic, Christianity) one who performs an ordination ceremony ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Catalan: ordinador → Haitian Creole: òdinatè → Romanian: ordinator → Spanish: ordenador === See also === === Further reading === “ordinateur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012