auctor

== English == === Noun === auctor (plural auctors) Obsolete form of author. === Anagrams === turaco, curato, cuatro, outcar, actour, cuarto == Latin == === Alternative forms === autor author (New Latin, proscribed) === Etymology === By surface analysis, augeō (“to increase, nourish”) +‎ -tor. Given the existence of Umbrian 𐌖𐌇𐌕𐌖𐌓 (uhtur), the term perhaps derives from Proto-Italic *auktōr, though the Umbrian term may be borrowed from Latin. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈau̯k.tɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈau̯k.tor] === Noun === auctor m or f (genitive auctōris, feminine auctor or auctrīx); third declension seller, vendor author, originator Synonyms: conditor, creātor (figuratively) authorship, agency, encouragement sponsor, advocate surety, witness, voucher Synonyms: testis, arbiter (poetic) the Creator, God (also Medieval Latin) one who gives increase (hence: an originator, causer, doer, founder) ==== Usage notes ==== Normally masculine, but also used occasionally in Classical Latin as a feminine noun referring to a woman (uniquely among agent nouns ending in the suffix -tor). The use of auctor in reference to women is attested as early as Plautus. The separate feminine form auctrīx is attested postclassically in Tertullian and later authors, but never became frequent. ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== auctōritās auctorizō auctor vītae auctrīx ==== Descendants ==== === References === === Further reading === “auctor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “auctor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "auctor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “auctor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “auctor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers auctor in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016 “auctor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin == Middle English == === Noun === auctor alternative form of auctour == Old Irish == === Alternative forms === auctar, augtor, ugtar === Etymology === From Latin auctor. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈau̯ktor] === Noun === auctor m (genitive auctair, nominative plural auctair) author c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 144b3 ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Middle Irish: ugdar Irish: údar Manx: ughtar Scottish Gaelic: ùghdar === Mutation === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “augtar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language == Portuguese == === Noun === auctor m (plural auctores, feminine auctora, feminine plural auctoras) obsolete spelling of autor