autor
English edit
Noun edit
autor (plural autors)
- 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.
Albanian edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin auctor.
Noun edit
autor m
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- bashkautor (“co-author”)
Aragonese edit
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Noun edit
autor m (plural autors, feminine autora, feminine plural autoras)
References edit
- “autor”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “autor”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Asturian edit
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autor m (plural autores)
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
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autor m (plural autors, feminine autora)
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Further reading edit
- “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.
Czech edit
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autor m anim (feminine autorka)
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Galician edit
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Noun edit
autor m (plural autores, feminine autora, feminine plural autoras)
Further reading edit
- “autor” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Interlingua edit
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autor (plural autores)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Late variant of auctor under influence of descendants such as Italian autore.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈau̯.tor/, [ˈäu̯t̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈau̯.tor/, [ˈäːu̯t̪or]
Noun edit
autor m (genitive autōris); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | autor | autōrēs |
Genitive | autōris | autōrum |
Dative | autōrī | autōribus |
Accusative | autōrem | autōrēs |
Ablative | autōre | autōribus |
Vocative | autor | autōrēs |
Lombard edit
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autor m (feminine form autris)
Middle English edit
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autor
- Alternative form of auctour
Occitan edit
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autor m (plural autors, feminine autora, feminine plural autoras)
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autor f (plural autors)
Old French edit
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Etymology edit
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autor oblique singular, m (oblique plural autors, nominative singular autors, nominative plural autor)
- author (writer)
- creator; instigator
Descendants edit
- Middle French: autheur, aucteur, auctour, auteur, autteur
- French: auteur (see there for further descendants)
- → Middle English: auctour, auctor, autor, autour, author, auther
References edit
- 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.
Piedmontese edit
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autor m
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Autor.[1][2][3] Compare Kashubian aùtór and Silesian autōr. First attested in 1556–1557.[4]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
autor m pers (female equivalent autorka, diminutive autorek, related adjective autorski or autorczy)
- author (originator or creator of a work)
- originator (originator of some actions)
- (proscribed) doer (one who does something)
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Trivia edit
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]
References edit
- ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “autor”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “autor”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
- ^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “autor”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language][1] (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “autor”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “autor”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language][2] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 15
Further reading edit
- 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[3]
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “autor”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861[4]
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “autor”, in Słownik języka polskiego[5] (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 73
- autor in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin auctor. Doublet of auteur.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: au‧tor
Noun edit
autor m (plural autores, feminine autora, feminine plural autoras)
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French auteur, or Latin auctor.
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autor m (plural autori, feminine equivalent autoare)
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- autor in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Serbo-Croatian edit
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àutor m (Cyrillic spelling а̀утор)
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Semi-learned borrowing from Latin auctor.
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autor m (plural autores, feminine autora, feminine plural autoras)
- author
- Synonym: escribiente
- perpetrator of a crime
- Synonym: responsable
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Further reading edit
- “autor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014