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From lint + -er.

linter (countable and uncountable, plural linters)

1. The short fibres that cling to cottonseeds after the first ginning.
2. (countable) A machine for removing these fibres.

   Synonym: delinter

3. A person or device that collects lint for use in making hats etc.

• lint doctor
• lint roller

From lint + -er.

linter (plural linters)

1. (computing) A program or algorithm that performs linting.

   Coordinate term: sanitizer

   • 2021, Felix Zumstein, Python for Excel, page 73:

     A linter checks your source code for syntax and style errors.

The form lunter is thought to be older. Compare Ancient Greek λιντήρ (lintḗr). Traditionally said to derive from Proto-Indo-European *plew- (“to wash”) (more at pluit (“it rains”)) and to be related to Ancient Greek πλυντήρ (pluntḗr), but the loss of the p is unexplained.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈlɪn.tɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlin.ter]

linter f or m (genitive lintris); third declension

1. tank, tub, trough, vat, washtub
2. small, lightweight boat, skiff, canoe, wherry
   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 2.864:

     nāviget hinc alia iam mihi linter aquā.

     From here, let now my boat sail other waters.
     That is to say:
     Let me now turn to something different.
     (Ovid concludes Book 2 of the Fasti and looks ahead to the next one.)

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• The genitive plural is sometimes found as lintrum.

• Albanian: ljundrë
• Aromanian: luntri, lãndurã
• Dalmatian: lundro
• Romanian: luntre
• Neapolitan
  • Calabrian: luntri

• “linter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “linter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “linter”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “linter”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers