creator
English edit
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Etymology edit
From Middle English creatour, from Old French creator, creatur, creatour, from Latin creātor, agent noun from perfect passive participle creātus (“created”), from verb creō (“I create”) + agent suffix -or. Mostly displaced native Old English wyrhta (modern English wright).
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /kɹiˈeɪtɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɹiːˈeɪtə/
- Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Audio (UK) (file)
Noun edit
creator (plural creators, feminine creatress or creatrix)
- Something or someone which creates or makes something.
- Kenneth E. Iverson was the creator of APL.
- (social media) Ellipsis of content creator, someone who regularly produces and publishes content on social media, especially of a monetizable nature.
- Coordinate term: influencer
- creator economy
- 2022 July 14, Rafqa Touma, “Melbourne woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent”, in The Guardian[2]:
- The video shows TikTok creator Harrison Pawluk approaching the woman, Maree, in a public shopping centre.
- (religion, sometimes capitalized) The deity that created the world.
- (sports) A player who creates opportunities for their team to score goals; a playmaker.
- 2019 July 3, Andrea Canales, Jonathan Tannenwald, “Pulisic, McKennie show plenty of promise for U.S. in Gold Cup”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer[3]:
- Hernández is not a creator and suffered from a lack of service in previous seasons.
- 2022 October 13, Richard Jolly, “Record-breaker Mohamed Salah delivers timely reminder of his greatest strength ahead of clash with champions”, in Independent.ie[4]:
- There have been times this season when it seemed Liverpool were trying to reinvent Salah, the scorer supreme, as a creator and this was a sudden reminder of his greatest strength.
- 2022 October 19, Andre Snellings, “Fantasy basketball: Why Jalen Brunson can be even better in New York”, in ESPN[5]:
- As such, when Doncic was on the court, Brunson was a secondary facilitator and more of a finisher than a creator.
Usage notes edit
- Usually capitalized as Creator when referring to a specific deity.
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
From creō (“I create, make”) + -tor. Compare Sanskrit कर्तृ (kartṛ).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kreˈaː.tor/, [kreˈäːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kreˈa.tor/, [kreˈäːt̪or]
Noun edit
creātor m (genitive creātōris, feminine creātrīx); third declension
- a creator, author, founder
- a person who elects or appoints to an office
- the creator of the world; God
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | creātor | creātōrēs |
Genitive | creātōris | creātōrum |
Dative | creātōrī | creātōribus |
Accusative | creātōrem | creātōrēs |
Ablative | creātōre | creātōribus |
Vocative | creātor | creātōrēs |
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- Ibero-Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Borrowed:
Verb edit
creātor
References edit
- “creator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “creator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- creator 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)
- creator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[6], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) God is the Creator of the world: deus est mundi procreator (not creator), aedificator, fabricator, opifex rerum
- (ambiguous) God is the Creator of the world: deus est mundi procreator (not creator), aedificator, fabricator, opifex rerum
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “creator”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 1297
Old French edit
Noun edit
creator oblique singular, m (oblique plural creators, nominative singular creators, nominative plural creator)
- Alternative form of creatur
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
From French créateur, from Latin creātor. Equivalent to crea + -tor.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
creator m or n (feminine singular creatoare, masculine plural creatori, feminine and neuter plural creatoare)
Declension edit
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | creator | creatoare | creatori | creatoare | ||
definite | creatorul | creatoarea | creatorii | creatoarele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | creator | creatoare | creatori | creatoare | ||
definite | creatorului | creatoarei | creatorilor | creatoarelor |
Noun edit
creator m (plural creatori)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) creator | creatorul | (niște) creatori | creatorii |
genitive/dative | (unui) creator | creatorului | (unor) creatori | creatorilor |
vocative | creatorule | creatorilor |
Further reading edit
- creator in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)