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auditor

English

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Etymology

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From Anglo-Norman auditour, from Latin audītor (“hearer, auditor”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɔːdɪtɚ/
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Noun

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auditor (plural auditors, feminine auditress)

  1. One who audits bookkeeping accounts.
  2. In many jurisdictions, an elected or appointed public official in charge of the public accounts; a comptroller.
  3. One who audits an academic course; who attends the lectures but does not earn academic credit.
  4. (rare) One who listens, typically as a member of an audience.
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
      There is another of better notice, and whispered through the world with some attention; credulous and vulgar auditors readily believing it, and more judicious and distinctive heads not altogether rejecting it.
    • 1851 June–July (date written), Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Gorgon’s Head”, in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, published November 1851 (indicated as 1852), →OCLC, page 32:
      Thus (as you will see with half an eye, my wise little auditors) these good old dames had fallen into a strange perplexity.
    • 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds:
      Sampson's tongue was still flying with rapidity, as if his auditors had not been void of a number, while Mr. Alboni and Natalie were holding a consultation aside.
    • 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
      As we crossed the hall the telephone-bell rang, and we were the involuntary auditors of Professor Challenger's end of the ensuing dialogue.
  5. (Scientology) One trained to perform spiritual guidance procedures.

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Czech

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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auditor m anim (female equivalent auditorka)

  1. auditor (one who audits bookkeeping accounts)

Declension

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Declension of auditor (hard masculine animate)
singular plural
nominative auditor auditoři
genitive auditora auditorů
dative auditorovi, auditoru auditorům
accusative auditora auditory
vocative auditore auditoři
locative auditorovi, auditoru auditorech
instrumental auditorem auditory
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Further reading

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  • “auditor”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
  • “auditor”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • auditor in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Danish

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Etymology

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Doublet of auditør

Noun

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auditor c (singular definite auditoren, plural indefinite auditorer)

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Declension

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Declension of auditor
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative auditor auditoren auditorer auditorerne
genitive auditors auditorens auditorers auditorernes

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Dutch auditor, from Latin audītor (“hearer, auditor”). Doublet of oditur.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [au̯ˈd̪itɔr]
  • Hyphenation: au‧di‧tor

Noun

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auditor (first-person possessive auditorku, second-person possessive auditormu, third-person possessive auditornya)

  1. auditor:
    1. one who audits bookkeeping accounts
    2. in many jurisdictions, an elected or appointed public official in charge of the public accounts; a comptroller

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Latin

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Etymology

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From audiō (“hear, listen”) +‎ -tor.

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Noun

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audītor m (genitive audītōris); third declension

  1. a hearer
  2. an auditor
  3. a pupil, disciple; a person who listens to teachings
    Synonym: discipulus
  4. (by metonymy) a reader of a book (books were read aloud)

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative audītor audītōrēs
Genitive audītōris audītōrum
Dative audītōrī audītōribus
Accusative audītōrem audītōrēs
Ablative audītōre audītōribus
Vocative audītor audītōrēs
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Descendants

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Verb

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audītor

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

References

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  • “auditor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “auditor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • auditor 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)
  • auditor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to attend Plato's lectures: audire Platonem, auditorem esse Platonis
  • auditor in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin audītōrem. Doublet of ouvidor.

Pronunciation

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  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /aw.diˈtoɾ/ [aw.ðiˈtoɾ]
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /aw.diˈto.ɾi/ [aw.ðiˈto.ɾi]

  • Hyphenation: au‧di‧tor

Noun

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auditor m (plural auditores, feminine auditora, feminine plural auditoras)

  1. auditor (one who audits bookkeeping accounts)
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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French auditeur, from Latin auditor.

Adjective

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auditor m or n (feminine singular auditoare, masculine plural auditori, feminine and neuter plural auditoare)

  1. auditorial

Declension

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Declension of auditor
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite auditor auditoare auditori auditoare
definite auditorul auditoarea auditorii auditoarele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite auditor auditoare auditori auditoare
definite auditorului auditoarei auditorilor auditoarelor

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin audītōrem. Doublet of oidor.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /audiˈtoɾ/ [au̯.ð̞iˈt̪oɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: au‧di‧tor

Noun

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auditor m (plural auditores, feminine auditora, feminine plural auditoras)

  1. auditor (one who audits bookkeeping accounts)

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