inventor
See also: inventór
English edit
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Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪnˈvɛntɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪnˈvɛntə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Noun edit
inventor (plural inventors)
- One who invents, either as a hobby or as an occupation.
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Translations edit
one who invents
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Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin inventōrem.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
inventor (feminine inventora, masculine plural inventors, feminine plural inventores)
Noun edit
inventor m (plural inventors, feminine inventora)
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Further reading edit
- “inventor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “inventor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “inventor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “inventor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin inventor, inventōrem.
Noun edit
inventor m (plural inventores, feminine inventora, feminine plural inventoras)
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Further reading edit
- “inventor” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /inˈu̯en.tor/, [ɪnˈu̯ɛn̪t̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /inˈven.tor/, [iɱˈvɛn̪t̪or]
Noun edit
inventor m (genitive inventōris, feminine inventrīx); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | inventor | inventōrēs |
Genitive | inventōris | inventōrum |
Dative | inventōrī | inventōribus |
Accusative | inventōrem | inventōrēs |
Ablative | inventōre | inventōribus |
Vocative | inventor | inventōrēs |
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References edit
- “inventor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “inventor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- inventor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- inventor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a legislator: legum scriptor, conditor, inventor
- a legislator: legum scriptor, conditor, inventor
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin inventōrem.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: in‧ven‧tor
Noun edit
inventor m (plural inventores, feminine inventora, feminine plural inventoras)
- inventor (one who invents things)
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French inventeur.
Noun edit
inventor m (plural inventori)
Declension edit
Declension of inventor
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) inventor | inventorul | (niște) inventori | inventorii |
genitive/dative | (unui) inventor | inventorului | (unor) inventori | inventorilor |
vocative | inventorule | inventorilor |
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin inventōrem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
inventor m (plural inventores, feminine inventora or inventriz, feminine plural inventoras or inventrices)
- inventor (one who invents things)
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Further reading edit
- “inventor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014