Etymograph

English

lavador

Lavador comes from Portuguese lavador ‘washer’.

  1. Portuguesec. 1500–presentlavador‘washer’
  2. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Portuguesec. 1500–presentlavador‘washer’
  2. Englishtodaysame form

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- ‘to wash’

laundry, deluge, lavish, alluvial, lye, solute, launder, lather, latrine, lavatory, ablution, diluent, laver, lave, 13 more

through Latin lavāre ‘to wash’

lavage, 1 more

Today it means

noun A machine used in mining placer deposits, which washes paydirt slurries pumped into the top of machine, extracting pebbled ores though its sluice runs into its riffles, grates and miner's moss, a type of washplant.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Portuguese lavador / lavador

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