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In Spanish the preferred name is "ordenador" which would translate to something like "sorter" or "organizer machine".
by Jare 7y ago
In Spanish the preferred name is "ordenador" which would translate to something like "sorter" or "organizer machine".
- danudey 7y agoIn French, it's the same; it's about "putting things in order", similar in concept to an ordonnateur: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordonnateur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordonnateur
- andredz 7y agoThat's in Spain. In American Spanish computador/a is most often used: http://lema.rae.es/dpd/srv/search?key=computador http://lema.rae.es/dpd/srv/search?key=computador There is also informática/computación; both Spanish words to refer to the same thing but used in Spain/America. I guess that literally they'd be something like IT and CS.
- Jare 7y agoGood points from both, indeed it's a country thing not a language thing. My bad!
- adl 7y agomore accurate, it is called 'ordenador' in Spain. In Latin America, is 'Computadora'
- emmelaich 7y agoSimilarly for French - "ordinateur" https://www.dictionnaire-academie.fr/article/A9O0665 https://www.dictionnaire-academie.fr/article/A9O0665 A search for "computer" does not find anything; though I suspect many French actually use computer not ordinateur.
- grumpydba 7y agoNo we don't. We use ordinateur.
- limomium 7y agoIn Finnish, it's an 'information machine'. To use one is colloquially 'to data'; as in, a verb form of data :)