deviator

From deviate +‎ -or.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdivieɪtɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdiːvieɪtə/

deviator (plural deviators)

1. That which deviates, or causes deviation
   • 2007 April 29, Jon Meacham, “Friends of Winston”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     For Tories like Cartland, deviating from the Chamberlain line was seen as betrayal, not disagreement, and the deviators were subjected to raw schoolboy pressure.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deː.wiˈaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪e.viˈaː.t̪or]

dēviātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of dēviō

• “deviator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• deviator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from French déviateur. By surface analysis, devia +‎ -tor.

deviator m (plural deviatori)

1. diverter