router

English Online Dictionary. What means router‎? What does router mean?

English

Etymology 1

From route +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹuː.tə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹu.tɚ/, /ˈɹaʊ.tɚ/
• Rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)

Noun

router (plural routers)

1. Someone who routes or directs items from one location to another.
2. (telecommunications) Any device that directs packets of information using the equivalent of Open Systems Interconnection layer 3 (network layer) information. Most commonly used in reference to Internet Protocol routers.
4. (Internet) A device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet by, at minimum, selectively passing those datagrams having a destination IP address to the network which is able to deliver them to their destination; a network gateway.

5. (electronics, electronic design automation) In integrated circuit or printed circuit board design, an algorithm for adding all wires needed to properly connect all of the placed components while obeying all design rules.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Japanese: ルーター, ルータ
• → Korean: 라우터 (rauteo)

Translations

See also

• firewall
• routing (EDA) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From rout +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹaʊtə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹaʊtɚ/
• Rhymes: -aʊtə(ɹ)

Noun

router (plural routers)

1. A power tool used in carpentry for cutting grooves.

2. A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.
3. A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.

Derived terms

• plunge router

Translations

See also

• wood router on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

router (third-person singular simple present routers, present participle routering, simple past and past participle routered)

1. to hollow out or cut using a router power tool.

Anagrams

• retour, roture, tourer

Chinese

Etymology

From English router.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹaːu̯⁵⁵ tʰaː³⁵/

Noun

router

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet) router

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English router.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈru(ː)tər/, /ˈrɑu̯tər/
• Hyphenation: rou‧ter
• Rhymes: -utər, -ɑu̯tər

Noun

router m (plural routers, diminutive routertje n)

1. (Internet) router (networking device)

French

Etymology

From route +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁu.te/

Verb

router

1. to route

Conjugation

Derived terms

• routage
• routeur

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• retour, trouer

Polish

Alternative forms

• ruter

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English router.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈru.tɛr/
• Rhymes: -utɛr
• Syllabification: rou‧ter

Noun

router m inan

1. (Internet) router (device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet)

   Synonym: trasownik

Declension

Further reading

• router in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• router in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English router.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: rou‧ter

Noun

router m (plural routers)

1. (Portugal, networking) router (device that directs packets of information using OSI layer 3)

   Synonym: (Brazil) roteador

References

“router”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Spanish

Alternative forms

• rúter

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English router.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈruteɾ/ [ˈru.t̪eɾ]
  • Rhymes: -uteɾ
• IPA^(key): /ˈrauteɾ/ [ˈrau̯.t̪eɾ]
  • Rhymes: -auteɾ

Noun

router m (plural routers or router)

1. router

   Synonyms: enrutador, direccionador, encaminador

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “router”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Noun

router c

1. (telecommunications) a router

Declension

Noun

router

1. definite singular of route

References

• router in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• router in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)