distractor
English
Etymology
distract + -or
Noun
distractor (plural distractors)
- Alternative spelling of distracter
Portuguese
Adjective
distractor (feminine distractora, masculine plural distractores, feminine plural distractoras)
- Superseded spelling of distrator. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)
Noun
distractor m (plural distractores, feminine distractora, feminine plural distractoras)
- Superseded spelling of distrator. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)
Spanish
Noun
distractor m (plural distractores)
- distracter
Further reading
- “distractor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014