pacemaker

pacemaker

English

Alternative forms

• (medicine): peacemaker (misconstruction, non-native speakers’ English)

Etymology

pace +‎ maker

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪsˌmeɪkəɹ/

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Noun

pacemaker (plural pacemakers)

1. One who sets the pace in a race, to guide the others.
2. (anatomy) A set of nerves which stimulate the heart to beat.
3. (by extension, medicine) A medical implement that is used to stimulate a heart to beat by simulating the action of the natural pacemaker.

Descendants

• → Danish: pacemaker
• → Swedish: pacemaker

Translations

one who sets the pace in a race

Chinese: Mandarin: 帶步人／带步人 (dàibùrén) Finnish: vauhdinpitäjä French: meneur de train m German: Schrittmacher m, Pacemaker (de) m, Tempomacher (de) m Irish: séadaire m Italian: lepre (it) f, battistrada (it) m Serbo-Croatian: pejsmejker (sh) m Swedish: hare (sv) c, pacemaker (sv) c

anatomy: set of nerves

Chinese: Cantonese: 竇房結, 窦房结 (dau6 fong4 git3) Mandarin: 竇房結／窦房结 (dòufángjié) Finnish: sydänhermo Hindi: गतिप्रेरक (gatiprerak) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: pêngave diristker f Macedonian: предводник m (predvodnik) Persian: ضربان‌ساز‎ (zarabân-sâz) Spanish: marcapasos (es) m

medical implement

Catalan: marcapassos (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 起搏器 (zh) (qǐbóqì) Czech: kardiostimulátor m Danish: pacemaker c Faroese: kvikil m Finnish: sydämentahdistin (fi), tahdistin (fi) French: stimulateur cardiaque m, pacemaker (fr), stimulateur (fr) m Galician: marcapasos m German: Herzschrittmacher (de) m, Pacemaker (de) m Greenlandic: batteri Hindi: गतिनिर्धारक यन्ट् m (gatinirdhārak yanṭ) Indonesian: pacu jantung (id) Irish: séadaire m Italian: pacemaker (it) m Japanese: ペースメーカー (pēsumēkā) Korean: 심장박동조율기 (simjangbakdongjoyulgi) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: pêngave diristker a destkar f Maori: mīhini whakataki manawa Polish: rozrusznik serca (pl) m, rozrusznik m Portuguese: marca-passo (pt) m Russian: электрокардиостимуля́тор (ru) m (elektrokardiostimuljátor), ЭКС m (EKS), кардиостимуля́тор (ru) m (kardiostimuljátor) Serbo-Croatian: pejsmejker (sh) m Slovak: kardiostimulátor m Spanish: marcapaso m, marcapasos (es) m, estimulador cardíaco m Swedish: pacemaker (sv) c Turkish: kalp pili Welsh: rheolydd calon m

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Welsh: (please verify) amseriadur m, (please verify) rheoliadur m

See also

• domestique

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French

Noun

pacemaker m (plural pacemakers)

1. pacemaker (device)

Further reading

• “pacemaker”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pacemaker.

Noun

pacemaker n (plural pacemakere)

1. pacemaker

Declension

Declension of pacemaker

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) pacemaker	pacemakerul	(niște) pacemakere	pacemakerele
genitive/dative	(unui) pacemaker	pacemakerului	(unor) pacemakere	pacemakerelor
vocative	pacemakerule		pacemakerelor

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Swedish

Etymology

From English pacemaker, used since 1891.

Noun

pacemaker c

1. (sports) a pacemaker, one who sets the pace
2. (medicine) a pacemaker, an implant that stimulates the heart to beat

Declension

Declension of pacemaker
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	pacemaker	pacemakern	pacemakrar	pacemakrarna
Genitive	pacemakers	pacemakerns	pacemakrars	pacemakrarnas

Related terms

• pacemakerbärare

References

• pacemaker in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• pacemaker in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)