automotor (pluralautomotors)

1. (obsolete) Any motorized vehicle.
   • 1896,Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute, volume27, page226:

     And the demand is enhanced by the call for rubber for tires to ordinary carriages, cycles, andautomotors.

   • 1899,The Auto: The Motorist's Pictorial, volumes3-4, page xiii:

     To the Publisher, THEAUTOMOTOR AND HORSELESS VEHICLE JOURNAL, 62, St. Martin's Lane, London, W.C.

   • 1915,Commerce Reports, volume 2, number115, page784:

     One of the commercial attachés of the Department of Commerce in South America transmits the name and address of an engineer who desires to receive full information relative to anautomotor for an interurban railway.

Borrowed fromFrenchautomoteur. Bysurface analysis,auto- +‎motor.

automotor n (pluralautomotoare)

1. railcar

Fromauto- +‎motor.

• IPA^(key): /automoˈtoɾ/[au̯.t̪o.moˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes:-oɾ
• Syllabification:au‧to‧mo‧tor

automotor (feminineautomotoraorautomotriz,masculine pluralautomotores,feminine pluralautomotorasorautomotrices)

1. automotive
2. automobile

• “automotor”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

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