automotor

automotor (plural automotors)

1. (obsolete) Any motorized vehicle.
   • 1896, Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute, volume 27, page 226:

     And the demand is enhanced by the call for rubber for tires to ordinary carriages, cycles, and automotors.

   • 1899, The Auto: The Motorist's Pictorial, volumes 3-4, page xiii:

     To the Publisher, THE AUTOMOTOR AND HORSELESS VEHICLE JOURNAL, 62, St. Martin's Lane, London, W.C.

   • 1915, Commerce Reports, volume 2, number 115, page 784:

     One of the commercial attachés of the Department of Commerce in South America transmits the name and address of an engineer who desires to receive full information relative to an automotor for an interurban railway.

Borrowed from French automoteur. By surface analysis, auto- +‎ motor.

automotor n (plural automotoare)

1. railcar

From auto- +‎ motor.

• IPA^(key): /automoˈtoɾ/ [au̯.t̪o.moˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: au‧to‧mo‧tor

automotor (feminine automotora or automotriz, masculine plural automotores, feminine plural automotoras or automotrices)

1. automotive
2. automobile

• “automotor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28