autor

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.

Learned borrowing from Latin auctor.

autór m

1. author

• bashkautor (“co-author”)

• “autor”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[3], 1980
• Newmark, Leonard (1999), “autor”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[4]

• fautor

From Latin auctor.

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

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

1. author

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

From Latin auctor.

autor m (plural autores)

1. author

Borrowed from Latin auctōrem.

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

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

1. author

• coautor

• “autor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “autor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “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.

• IPA^(key): [ˈau̯tor]

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• Hyphenation: au‧tor

autor m anim (female equivalent autorka)

1. author

• “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), 2008–2026

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese autor, from Latin auctor, from augeō + -tor.

• IPA^(key): /awˈtoɾ/ [ɑwˈt̪oɾ]

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• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Hyphenation: au‧tor

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

1. author (originator or creator of a work)
2. (loosely) causer; originator; instigator
3. (criminal law) perpetrator

• “autor”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

autor (plural autores)

1. author

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈau̯.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaːu̯.tor]

autor m (genitive autōris); third declension

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

Third-declension noun.

• IPA^(key): /awˈtuːr/ (Milanese)

autor m (feminine form autris)

1. author

autor

1. alternative form of auctour

• IPA^(key): [awˈtu]

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From Latin auctor.

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

1. author

From aut +‎ -or.

• nautor (Languedoc)
• hautor (Gascon)

autor f (plural autors)

1. (Provençal) height

• auctor, auctour, auctur, autour, autur

Inherited from Latin auctor.

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

1. author (writer)
2. creator; instigator

• Middle French: autheur, aucteur, auctour, auteur, autteur
  • French: auteur (see there for further descendants)
• → Norman: auteu
• → Middle English: auctour, auctor, autor, autour, author, auther
  • English: author
  • Scots: author

• 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

Inherited from Latin auctor, from augeō + -tor.

• auctor

autor m (plural autores)

1. author (originator or creator of a work)
   • 1300, Alfonso X of Castile, [Xeral Historia]; republished as chapter I, in Ramón Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, 1963, page 212:

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     [Sobre esta rrazõ conta hũ autor em hũ libro que cõposo das estorias da nossa ley et das falas dos gentíj́s […] ]

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• Galician: autor
• Portuguese: autor

autor m (plural autores)

1. alternative form of abtor

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “a@tor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “auc?tor”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• IPA^(key): /awˈtur/

autor m

1. author

Borrowed from German Autor.^[1][2][3] First attested in 1556–1557.^[4] Compare Kashubian aùtór and Silesian autōr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaw.tɔr/

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• Rhymes: -awtɔr
• Syllabification: au‧tor

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)

• → Russian: а́втор (ávtor), авторъ (avtor) — pre-1918 spelling
  • → Eastern Mari: автор (avtor)
  • → Georgian: ავტორი (avṭori)
  • → Ingrian: avtora
  • → Kazakh: автор (avtor)
  • → Uyghur: ئاپتور (aptor)
  • → Yakut: ааптар (aaptar)

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]

• 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

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• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Hyphenation: au‧tor

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese autor, from Latin auctor, from augeō + -tor. Doublet of auteur.

• auctor (obsolete)

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

1. author (originator or creator of a work)

   Synonym: artista

2. author (someone who writes books for a living)

   Synonym: escritor

3. (loosely) causer; originator; instigator

   Synonym: instigador

   • 2017, “Desastre” (0:38 from the start), in 1775, performed by Moonspell, Lisbon: Napalm:

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

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

4. (criminal law) perpetrator

   Synonym: perpetrador

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese abtor, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin actor, from āctus + -tor. Doublet of ator.

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

1. (law, archaic) plaintiff

   Synonyms: querelante, acusação

• “autor”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “autor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “autor”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “autor”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN

Borrowed from French auteur, or Latin auctor.

• IPA^(key): /a.uˈtor/

autor m (plural autori, feminine equivalent autoare)

1. author

• autorlâc

• scriitor

• “autor”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

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

àutor m anim (Cyrillic spelling а̀утор)

1. author

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin auctor.

• IPA^(key): /auˈtoɾ/ [au̯ˈt̪oɾ]

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• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: au‧tor

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

1. author

   Synonym: escribiente

2. perpetrator of a crime

   Synonyms: perpetrador, responsable

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

• “autor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• Tauro, urato