autor

autor (plural autors)

1. Obsolete form of author.
   • 1558, Bartho[lomew] Traheron, An Exposition of a Parte of S. Iohannes Gospel Made in Sondrie Readinges in the English Congregation […] :

     Iohan Baptiſt than ſheweth a reaſon, why he ſaide, that the lord Ieſus was before him, bicauſe, ſaieth he, he was my firſt, that is to ſaye, my prince, my head, my autor, my maker.

   • 1580, “Anglo-phile Eutheo to the Reader,S”, in A Second and Third Blast of Retrait from Plaies and Theaters: […]:

     VVhereby first, note with me, the goodnes of our God toward vs, who ſeeing that we wil not shun plaies for anie dehortations of his godlie Preachers, who daie by daie in al places of greatest reſort denounce the vengeance of GOD to them, be they hie or lowe, that fauor plaies, Theaters, or plaiers, ſtirreth vp the verie Autors themſelues to inueigh against them, that we maie be ashamed any waie to allowe that, which the verie Autors do vtterlie condemne.

   • 1593, Gabriell Harvey, “To my very gentle, and liberal Frendes, M. Barnabe Barnes, M. John Thorius, M. Anthony Chewt, and every favorable Reader”, in Pierces Supererogation: or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparative to Certaine Larger Discourses, Intituled Nashes S. Fame., London: […] Iohn Wolfe, page 5:

     […]; in the one, eſteeming Plutarch or Homer as an hundred autors; in the other, valuing Cato or Scipio as a thouſand examples.

Learned borrowing from Latin auctor.

autor m

1. author

• bashkautor (“co-author”)

• fautor

From Latin auctor.

• IPA^(key): /au̯ˈto(ɾ)/
• Rhymes: -o(ɾ)
• Syllabification: au‧tor

autor m (plural autors, feminine autora, feminine plural autoras)

1. author

• “autor”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)
• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “autor”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From Latin auctor.

autor m (plural autores)

1. author

Borrowed from Latin auctōrem.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əwˈto]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [awˈtoɾ]

autor m (plural autors, feminine autora)

1. author

• coautor

• “autor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “autor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “autor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “autor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): [ˈau̯tor]
• Hyphenation: au‧tor

autor m anim (feminine autorka)

1. author

• autor in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• autor in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• autor in Internetová jazyková příručka

From Latin auctor.

autor m (plural autores, feminine autora, feminine plural autoras)

1. author

• “autor”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

autor (plural autores)

1. author

Late variant of auctor under influence of descendants such as Italian autore.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.tor/, [ˈäu̯t̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.tor/, [ˈäːu̯t̪or]

autor m (genitive autōris); third declension

1. (New Latin, proscribed) Alternative form of auctor: source, creator, vendor, author, artist.

Third-declension noun.

• IPA^(key): /awˈtuːr/ (Milanese)

autor m (feminine form autris)

1. author

autor

1. Alternative form of auctour

• IPA^(key): [awˈtu]

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From Latin auctor.

autor m (plural autors, feminine autora, feminine plural autoras)

1. author

From aut +‎ -or.

• nautor (Languedoc)
• hautor (Gascon)

autor f (plural autors)

1. (Provençal) height

• auctor, auctour, auctur, autour, autur

Latin auctor.

autor oblique singular, m (oblique plural autors, nominative singular autors, nominative plural autor)

1. author (writer)
2. creator; instigator

• Middle French: autheur, aucteur, auctour, auteur, autteur
  • French: auteur (see there for further descendants)
• → Middle English: auctour, auctor, autor, autour, author, auther
  • English: author
  • Scots: author

• auctor on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
• Etymology and history of “auteur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /awˈtur/

autor m

1. author

Borrowed from German Autor.[1][2][3] Compare Kashubian aùtór and Silesian autōr. First attested in 1556–1557.[4]

• IPA^(key): /ˈaw.tɔr/

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• Rhymes: -awtɔr
• Syllabification: au‧tor

autor m pers (female equivalent autorka, diminutive autorek, related adjective autorski or autorczy)

1. author (originator or creator of a work)

   Synonym: twórca

   Hyponyms: pisarz, literat

2. originator (originator of some actions)
3. (proscribed) doer (one who does something)

• → Russian: а́втор (ávtor), авторъ (avtor)
  • → Eastern Mari: автор (avtor)
  • → Georgian: ავტორი (avṭori)
  • → Ingrian: avtora
  • → Kazakh: автор (avtor)
  • → Yakut: ааптар (aaptar)

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), autor is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 27 times in scientific texts, 23 times in news, 27 times in essays, 6 times in fiction, and 5 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 88 times, making it the 719th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]

• autor in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• autor in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Danuta Lankiewicz (29.08.2018) “AUTOR”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “autor”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “autor”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “autor”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 73
• autor in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

• auctor, author (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin auctor. Doublet of auteur.

• Hyphenation: au‧tor

autor m (plural autores, feminine autora, feminine plural autoras)

1. author

• autoria

• “autor” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Borrowed from French auteur, or Latin auctor.

• IPA^(key): /a.uˈtor/

autor m (plural autori, feminine equivalent autoare)

1. author

• autorlâc

• scriitor

• autor in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

• IPA^(key): /ǎutor/
• Hyphenation: a‧u‧tor

àutor m (Cyrillic spelling а̀утор)

1. author

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin auctor.

• IPA^(key): /auˈtoɾ/ [au̯ˈt̪oɾ]

• Audio (Venezuela):

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• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: au‧tor

autor m (plural autores, feminine autora, feminine plural autoras)

1. author

   Synonym: escribiente

2. perpetrator of a crime

   Synonym: responsable

• → Bikol Central: awtór, otor
• → Tagalog: awtór, otor

• “autor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• Tauro, urato