compositor
English edit
Etymology edit
From French compositeur, from Latin compositor.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
compositor (plural compositors)
- A person who sets type; a typesetter.
- 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
- Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
- 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter IV, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
- All Spaniards, we discovered, knew two English expressions. One was 'O.K., baby', the other was a word used by the Barcelona whores in their dealings with English sailors, and I am afraid the compositors would not print it.
- 1983, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge University Press, Second edition, 2005, p. 56:
- However late medieval copyists were supervised — and controls were much more lax than many accounts suggest — scribes were incapable of committing the sort of "standardized" error that was produced by a compositor who dropped the word "not" from the Seventh Commandment and thus created the "wicked" Bible of 1631.
- One who, or that which, composes or sets in order.
- I work as an image compositor.
- (computer graphics) A system that puts images together in a buffer (such as individual windows on a desktop) to generate a final display image.
Translations edit
typesetter — see typesetter
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin compositōrem.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Central) [kum.pu.ziˈto]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [kom.po.ziˈto]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [kom.po.ziˈtoɾ]
Noun edit
compositor m (plural compositors, feminine compositora)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “compositor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “compositor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “compositor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “compositor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician edit
Etymology edit
From Latin compositor.
Noun edit
compositor m (plural compositores, feminine compositora, feminine plural compositoras)
- composer (one who composes music)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “compositor” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
compositus, perfect passive participle of compōnō (“to arrange”) + -tor
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /komˈpo.si.tor/, [kɔmˈpɔs̠ɪt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /komˈpo.si.tor/, [komˈpɔːs̬it̪or]
Noun edit
compositor m (genitive compositōris); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | compositor | compositōrēs |
Genitive | compositōris | compositōrum |
Dative | compositōrī | compositōribus |
Accusative | compositōrem | compositōrēs |
Ablative | compositōre | compositōribus |
Vocative | compositor | compositōrēs |
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Catalan: compositor
- Galician: compositor
- Portuguese: compositor
- Spanish: compositor
References edit
- “compositor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “compositor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin compositōrem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
compositor m (plural compositores, feminine compositora, feminine plural compositoras)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin compositor.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /komposiˈtoɾ/ [kõm.po.siˈt̪oɾ]
- (Castilian)
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: com‧po‧si‧tor
Noun edit
compositor m (plural compositores, feminine compositora, feminine plural compositoras)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “compositor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014