auteur

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from French auteur (“author”). Popularised by François Truffaut in the 1954 essay “Une certaine tendance du cinéma français” (“A certain tendency in French cinema”) in the influential film journal Cahiers du Cinéma as the phrase “la politique des Auteurs”. Doublet of author. === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /oʊˈtɝ/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɔːˈtɜː/, /əʊˈtɜː/ Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ) Hyphenation: au‧teur Homophone: hauteur === Noun === auteur (plural auteurs) A creative artist, especially a film director, seen as having a specific, recognisable artistic vision, and who is seen as the single or preeminent ‘author’ of their works. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== author ==== Translations ==== === Verb === auteur (third-person singular simple present auteurs, present participle auteuring, simple past and past participle auteured) To work as an auteur. === Further reading === auteur on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == Dutch == === Alternative forms === autheur (obsolete) === Etymology === Borrowed from French auteur, from Middle French autheur, from Old French autor, from Latin auctor, auctorem. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɑu̯ˈtøːr/, /oːˈtøːr/ Hyphenation: au‧teur Rhymes: -øːr === Noun === auteur m (plural auteurs, diminutive auteurtje n, feminine autrice) author composer, artist, creator of a work ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Afrikaans: outeur → West Frisian: auteur == French == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle French autheur, from Old French autor, from Latin auctor, from augeō + -tor. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /o.tœʁ/ Rhymes: -œʁ === Noun === auteur m or f (plural auteurs, feminine autrice or auteure or (rare) auteuse or (rare, dated) authoress or auteuresse or auteuresse) author composer, artist inventor (of discovery); perpetrator (of crime); leader (of rebellion etc.) ==== Derived terms ==== coauteur droit d'auteur ==== Descendants ==== Mauritian Creole: oter → Dutch: auteur, autheur (obsolete)Afrikaans: outeur→ West Frisian: auteur → English: auteur → Portuguese: auteur → Romanian: autor === See also === écrivain === Further reading === “auteur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Portuguese == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from French auteur. Doublet of autor. === Noun === auteur m (plural auteurs) auteur (creative artist)