eductor

Latin eductor (“tutor”).

eductor (plural eductors)

1. Someone or something that educts (elicits or extracts).
   • 1794–1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:

     Stimulus must be called an eductor of vital ether.

   • 1994, Gregory L. Williams, James E. Clausner, Peter Jay Neilans, Improved Eductors for Sand Bypassing:

     The eductors in an entrance channel will have to be placed at the end of long pipes that extend from outside the entrance channel […]

2. Ellipsis of gully eductor.

• “eductor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• courted

From ēdūcō + -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [eːˈdʊk.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eˈduk.tor]

ēductor m (genitive ēductōris); third declension

1. a bringer up, tutor

Third-declension noun.

• “eductor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “eductor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.