autor

See also: aùtór and Autor

English

Noun

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.

Albanian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin auctor.

Noun

autor m

1. author

Declension

Declension of autor

	indefinite		definite
	singular	plural	singular	plural
nominative	autor	autorë	autori	autorët
accusative			autorin
dative	autori	autorëve	autorit	autorëve
ablative		autorësh

Derived terms

• bashkautor (“co-author”)

Aragonese

Alternative forms

• fautor

Etymology

From Latin auctor.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

1. author

References

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

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin auctor.

Noun

autor m (plural autores)

1. author

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin auctōrem.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

autor m (plural autors, feminine autora)

1. author

Derived terms

• coautor

Further reading

• “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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

autor m anim (female equivalent autorka)

1. author

Declension

Declension of autor (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	autor	autoři
genitive	autora	autorů
dative	autorovi, autoru	autorům
accusative	autora	autory
vocative	autore	autoři
locative	autorovi, autoru	autorech
instrumental	autorem	autory

Derived terms

• autorský
• autorův

 

Related terms

• autorita
• autoritativní
• autoritář
• autoritářský
• autoritářství
• autorizace
• autorizovat

 

Further reading

• “autor”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
• “autor”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “autor”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Galician

Etymology

From Latin auctor.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

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

1. author

Further reading

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

Interlingua

Noun

autor (plural autores)

1. author

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

autor m (genitive autōris); third declension

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

Declension

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /awˈtuːr/ (Milanese)

Noun

autor m (feminine form autris)

1. author

Middle English

Noun

autor

1. Alternative form of auctour

Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [awˈtu]

• Audio:

  (file)

Etymology 1

From Latin auctor.

Noun

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

1. author

Etymology 2

From aut +‎ -or.

Alternative forms

• nautor (Languedoc)
• hautor (Gascon)

Noun

autor f (plural autors)

1. (Provençal) height

Old French

Alternative forms

• auctor, auctour, auctur, autour, autur

Etymology

Latin auctor.

Noun

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

1. author (writer)
2. creator; instigator

Descendants

• 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

References

• 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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /awˈtur/

Noun

autor m

1. author

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Autor. Compare Kashubian aùtór and Silesian autōr. First attested in 1556–1557.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaw.tɔr/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -awtɔr
• Syllabification: au‧tor

Noun

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)

Declension

Declension of autor

	singular	plural
nominative	autor	autorzy/autory (deprecative)
genitive	autora	autorów
dative	autorowi	autorom
accusative	autora	autorów
instrumental	autorem	autorami
locative	autorze	autorach
vocative	autorze	autorzy

Derived terms

nouns

• autorstwo

 

Related terms

adverbs

• autorsko

 

Descendants

• → Russian: а́втор (ávtor), авторъ (avtor) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
  • → Eastern Mari: автор (avtor)
  • → Georgian: ავტორი (avṭori)
  • → Ingrian: avtora
  • → Kazakh: автор (avtor)
  • → Yakut: ааптар (aaptar)

Trivia

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.

Further reading

• 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

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• auctor, author (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin auctor. Doublet of auteur.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /awˈtoʁ/ [aʊ̯ˈtoh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /awˈtoʁ/ [aʊ̯ˈtoh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /awˈtoɾ/ [aʊ̯ˈtoɾ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /awˈtoʁ/ [aʊ̯ˈtoχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /awˈtoɻ/ [aʊ̯ˈtoɻ]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /awˈtoɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /awˈtoɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /awˈto.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: au‧tor

Noun

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

1. author
   • 2017, “Desastre”, performed by Moonspell:

     És apenas um homem
     Um escravo de Deus
     Autor do desastre que aconteceu

     You're just a man
     A slave of God
     Author of the disaster that occured

Derived terms

• autoria

Further reading

• “autor” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French auteur, or Latin auctor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.uˈtor/

Noun

autor m (plural autori, feminine equivalent autoare)

1. author

Declension

Declension of autor

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) autor	autorul	(niște) autori	autorii
genitive/dative	(unui) autor	autorului	(unor) autori	autorilor
vocative	autorule		autorilor

Derived terms

• autorlâc

See also

• scriitor

Further reading

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

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

àutor m (Cyrillic spelling а̀утор)

1. author

Declension

Declension of autor

	singular	plural
nominative	autor	autori
genitive	autora	autora
dative	autoru	autorima
accusative	autora	autore
vocative	autore	autori
locative	autoru	autorima
instrumental	autorom	autorima

Spanish

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin auctor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /auˈtoɾ/ [au̯ˈt̪oɾ]

• Audio (Venezuela):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: au‧tor

Noun

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

1. author

   Synonym: escribiente

2. perpetrator of a crime

   Synonym: responsable

Derived terms

• autor intelectual
• autoría
• cine de autor
• coautor
• de autor
• derecho de autor
• derechos de autor
• muerte del autor
• teatro de autor

 

Related terms

• aumentar
• aumento
• autoridad

 

Descendants

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Tauro, urato