See auctor on Wiktionary
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"plural"
]
}
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210,
216
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"ref": "1558, Bartho[lomew] Traheron, An Exposition of a Parte of S. Iohannes Gospel Made in Sondrie Readinges in the English Congregation […]:",
"text": "And the ſumme, and meaninge of the wordes, which he now ſetteh forth is this, that the lorde Ieſus, though he ioigned vnto him mãnes nature in time, yet is æterne before al time, without beginning, & the verie auctor, maker, & prince of al men, high and low, and the true fountaine of al goodnes, righteouſnes, and holines, and of al the benefites, and graces, that at anie time haue ben giuen to mẽ, ſithens the begĩninge of the world, or ſhable giuen hereafter to the ende of the world.",
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170,
177
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"ref": "1565, Thomas Dorman, A Disproufe of M. Novvelles Reproufe, Antwerp: […] Iohn Laet, page 206:",
"text": "Yow ſee that he is a plaine makebate, and to mende his cauſe by ſetting the doctours at variance betwene them ſelues, how he heweth, mangleth, and cutteth awaie from the auctors that he alleageth, wordes, yea ſentences to ſerue his purpoſe.",
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63,
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272,
279
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"ref": "1583, William Fulke, A Defense of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holie Scriptures into the English Tong, Against the Manifolde Cauils, Friuolous Quarels, and Impudent Slaunders of Gregorie Martin, One of the Readers of Popish Diuinitie in the Trayterous Seminarie of Rhemes, London: […] Henrie Bynneman, for George Bishop, pages 30–31:",
"text": "But if wee would bring any booke out of credite by denying the auctor whoſe title it hath borne: wee would rather intitle it to ſome other writer of leſſe credite, or later tyme, or by ſome other argumentes proue it vnworthie of credite, not by onely denying it to be the auctors, vnder whoſe name it hath bene receyued.",
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"ref": "1598, Iohn Florio, A Worlde of Wordes, or Most Copious, and Exact Dictionarie in Italian and English, London: […] Arnold Hatfield for Edw. Blount:",
"text": "If any thinke I had great helpes of Alunno, or of Venuti, let him confer, and knovve I haue in tvvo, yea almost in one of my letters of the Alphabet more vvordes, then they haue in all their tvventie; and they are but for a fevv auctors in the Italian toong, mine for moſt that vvrite well, as may appeere by the Catalog of bookes that I haue read through of purpoſe for the accompliſhing of this Dictionarie.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"Obsolete form of author."
],
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],
"word": "auctor"
}
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "auctōritās"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "auctorizō"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "auctor vītae"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "auctrīx"
}
],
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"depth": 1,
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"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Auctor",
"3": "Autor",
"4": "Author",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ German: Auctor, Autor, Author",
"name": "desc"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
"name": "see desc"
}
],
"text": "→ German: Auctor, Autor, Author (see there for further descendants)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "lamed auctoris",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: lamed auctoris",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ English: lamed auctoris"
},
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{
"args": {
"1": "ga",
"2": "ughdar",
"3": "údar",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Irish: ughdar, údar",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Irish: ughdar, údar"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "autore",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Italian: autore",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Italian: autore"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sq",
"2": "autore",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Albanian: autore",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Albanian: autore"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nrf",
"2": "auteu",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Norman: auteu",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Norman: auteu"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "autor"
},
"expansion": "Old French: autor, auctor, auctour, auctur, autour, autur\nMiddle French: autheur, aucteur, auctour, auteur, autteur\nFrench: auteur (see there for further descendants)\n→ Middle English: auctour, auctor, autor, autour, author, auther\nEnglish: author\nScots: author",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Old French: autor, auctor, auctour, auctur, autour, autur\nMiddle French: autheur, aucteur, auctour, auteur, autteur\nFrench: auteur (see there for further descendants)\n→ Middle English: auctour, auctor, autor, autour, author, auther\nEnglish: author\nScots: author"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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"args": {
"1": "roa-opt",
"2": "autor"
},
"expansion": "Old Galician-Portuguese: autor, auctor\nGalician: autor\nPortuguese: autor",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Old Galician-Portuguese: autor, auctor\nGalician: autor\nPortuguese: autor"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "autor",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Romanian: autor",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Romanian: autor"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "autor",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Spanish: autor",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Spanish: autor"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "cy",
"2": "awdur",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Welsh: awdur",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Welsh: awdur"
}
],
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"1": "la",
"2": "inh",
"3": "itc-pro>*auktōr>authority figure",
"id": "seller"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "etymon"
},
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"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "itc-pro",
"3": "*auktōr"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Italic *auktōr",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "xum",
"2": "𐌖𐌇𐌕𐌖𐌓"
},
"expansion": "Umbrian 𐌖𐌇𐌕𐌖𐌓 (uhtur)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "augeō",
"3": "-tor",
"t1": "to increase, nourish"
},
"expansion": "augeō (“to increase, nourish”) + -tor",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Italic *auktōr, cognate to Umbrian 𐌖𐌇𐌕𐌖𐌓 (uhtur). Equivalent to augeō (“to increase, nourish”) + -tor.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "auctōris",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "auctor",
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "auctrīx",
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
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"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "auctor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "auctōrēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "auctōris",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "auctōrum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "auctōrī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "auctōribus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "auctōrem",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "auctōrēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "auctōre",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "auctōribus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "auctor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "auctōrēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "autor",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "author",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"New-Latin",
"proscribed"
]
}
],
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"1": "auctor<3>",
"f": "auctor/auctrīx",
"g1": "m",
"g2": "f"
},
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"name": "la-noun"
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "auctor<3>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
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],
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"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "21 8 2 9 18 17 26",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"seller, vendor"
],
"id": "en-auctor-la-noun-~v7khi-5",
"links": [
[
"seller",
"seller"
],
[
"vendor",
"vendor"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "13 32 4 14 12 12 12",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "la",
"name": "Writing",
"orig": "la:Writing",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
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{
"english": "O Janus, make peace and its ministers everlasting,\nand may the author of such an achievement, having prevailed, not abandon it.",
"ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.287–288",
"roman": "nēve suum, praestā, dēserat auctor opus.",
"text": "Iāne, fac aeternōs pācem pācisque ministrōs,"
}
],
"glosses": [
"author, originator"
],
"id": "en-auctor-la-noun-j0sDCDQ9",
"links": [
[
"author",
"author"
],
[
"originator",
"originator"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "conditor"
},
{
"word": "creātor"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"authorship, agency, encouragement"
],
"id": "en-auctor-la-noun-nNinCmwH",
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[
"authorship",
"authorship"
],
[
"agency",
"agency"
],
[
"encouragement",
"encouragement"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively) authorship, agency, encouragement"
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"feminine",
"figuratively",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"sponsor, advocate"
],
"id": "en-auctor-la-noun-J2aN6Etk",
"links": [
[
"sponsor",
"sponsor"
],
[
"advocate",
"advocate"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "21 8 2 9 18 17 26",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "0 0 0 0 55 0 45",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "la",
"name": "Business",
"orig": "la:Business",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"surety, witness, voucher"
],
"id": "en-auctor-la-noun-wcEMRBNb",
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[
"surety",
"surety"
],
[
"witness",
"witness"
],
[
"voucher",
"voucher"
]
],
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{
"word": "testis"
},
{
"word": "arbiter"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "21 8 2 9 18 17 26",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "14 13 10 13 13 26 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin feminine nouns in the third declension",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "14 13 10 13 13 26 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin masculine nouns in the third declension",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"the Creator, God"
],
"id": "en-auctor-la-noun-QB~UgUQJ",
"links": [
[
"Creator",
"Creator"
],
[
"God",
"God"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(poetic) the Creator, God"
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"poetic"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Medieval Latin",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "21 8 2 9 18 17 26",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 14 3 13 18 7 26",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin terms suffixed with -tor",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "14 14 4 13 12 14 28",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 4 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "11 11 3 10 9 11 44",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "0 3 0 0 0 25 72",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "la",
"name": "Art",
"orig": "la:Art",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "13 7 4 12 10 11 44",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "la",
"name": "Occupations",
"orig": "la:Occupations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "0 0 0 0 0 0 100",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "la",
"name": "People",
"orig": "la:People",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"one who gives increase (hence: an originator, causer, doer, founder)"
],
"id": "en-auctor-la-noun-p9qE1d3p",
"links": [
[
"originator",
"originator"
],
[
"doer",
"doer"
],
[
"founder",
"founder"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(also Medieval Latin) one who gives increase (hence: an originator, causer, doer, founder)"
],
"tags": [
"Medieval-Latin",
"also",
"declension-3",
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈau̯k.tɔr]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈau̯k.t̪or]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "auctor"
}
{
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{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "noun",
"altform": "1"
},
"expansion": "auctor",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "auctour"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
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"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
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"Alternative form of auctour"
],
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"links": [
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"auctour",
"auctour#Middle_English"
]
],
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"alternative"
]
}
],
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}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "auctores",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "auctora",
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "auctoras",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "m",
"f": "+"
},
"expansion": "auctor m (plural auctores, feminine auctora, feminine plural auctoras)",
"name": "pt-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "autor"
}
],
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{
"kind": "other",
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"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
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"Obsolete spelling of autor."
],
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]
],
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],
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}
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"tags": [
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}
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"args": {},
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "author"
}
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
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"English nouns",
"English obsolete forms",
"English terms with quotations",
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"Pages with entries"
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210,
216
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"text": "And the ſumme, and meaninge of the wordes, which he now ſetteh forth is this, that the lorde Ieſus, though he ioigned vnto him mãnes nature in time, yet is æterne before al time, without beginning, & the verie auctor, maker, & prince of al men, high and low, and the true fountaine of al goodnes, righteouſnes, and holines, and of al the benefites, and graces, that at anie time haue ben giuen to mẽ, ſithens the begĩninge of the world, or ſhable giuen hereafter to the ende of the world.",
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177
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],
"ref": "1565, Thomas Dorman, A Disproufe of M. Novvelles Reproufe, Antwerp: […] Iohn Laet, page 206:",
"text": "Yow ſee that he is a plaine makebate, and to mende his cauſe by ſetting the doctours at variance betwene them ſelues, how he heweth, mangleth, and cutteth awaie from the auctors that he alleageth, wordes, yea ſentences to ſerue his purpoſe.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
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63,
69
],
[
272,
278
],
[
272,
279
]
],
"ref": "1583, William Fulke, A Defense of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holie Scriptures into the English Tong, Against the Manifolde Cauils, Friuolous Quarels, and Impudent Slaunders of Gregorie Martin, One of the Readers of Popish Diuinitie in the Trayterous Seminarie of Rhemes, London: […] Henrie Bynneman, for George Bishop, pages 30–31:",
"text": "But if wee would bring any booke out of credite by denying the auctor whoſe title it hath borne: wee would rather intitle it to ſome other writer of leſſe credite, or later tyme, or by ſome other argumentes proue it vnworthie of credite, not by onely denying it to be the auctors, vnder whoſe name it hath bene receyued.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
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229,
236
]
],
"ref": "1598, Iohn Florio, A Worlde of Wordes, or Most Copious, and Exact Dictionarie in Italian and English, London: […] Arnold Hatfield for Edw. Blount:",
"text": "If any thinke I had great helpes of Alunno, or of Venuti, let him confer, and knovve I haue in tvvo, yea almost in one of my letters of the Alphabet more vvordes, then they haue in all their tvventie; and they are but for a fevv auctors in the Italian toong, mine for moſt that vvrite well, as may appeere by the Catalog of bookes that I haue read through of purpoſe for the accompliſhing of this Dictionarie.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Obsolete form of author."
],
"links": [
[
"author",
"author#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"word": "auctor"
}
{
"categories": [
"Latin 2-syllable words",
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin feminine nouns",
"Latin feminine nouns in the third declension",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin masculine nouns",
"Latin masculine nouns in the third declension",
"Latin nouns",
"Latin nouns with multiple genders",
"Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
"Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂ewg-",
"Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂weg-",
"Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
"Latin terms suffixed with -tor",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Latin third declension nouns",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"la:Art",
"la:Business",
"la:Occupations",
"la:People",
"la:Writing"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "auctōritās"
},
{
"word": "auctorizō"
},
{
"word": "auctor vītae"
},
{
"word": "auctrīx"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Auctor",
"3": "Autor",
"4": "Author",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ German: Auctor, Autor, Author",
"name": "desc"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
"name": "see desc"
}
],
"text": "→ German: Auctor, Autor, Author (see there for further descendants)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "lamed auctoris",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: lamed auctoris",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ English: lamed auctoris"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ga",
"2": "ughdar",
"3": "údar",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Irish: ughdar, údar",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Irish: ughdar, údar"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "autore",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Italian: autore",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Italian: autore"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sq",
"2": "autore",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Albanian: autore",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Albanian: autore"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nrf",
"2": "auteu",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Norman: auteu",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Norman: auteu"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "autor"
},
"expansion": "Old French: autor, auctor, auctour, auctur, autour, autur\nMiddle French: autheur, aucteur, auctour, auteur, autteur\nFrench: auteur (see there for further descendants)\n→ Middle English: auctour, auctor, autor, autour, author, auther\nEnglish: author\nScots: author",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Old French: autor, auctor, auctour, auctur, autour, autur\nMiddle French: autheur, aucteur, auctour, auteur, autteur\nFrench: auteur (see there for further descendants)\n→ Middle English: auctour, auctor, autor, autour, author, auther\nEnglish: author\nScots: author"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "roa-opt",
"2": "autor"
},
"expansion": "Old Galician-Portuguese: autor, auctor\nGalician: autor\nPortuguese: autor",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Old Galician-Portuguese: autor, auctor\nGalician: autor\nPortuguese: autor"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "autor",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Romanian: autor",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Romanian: autor"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "autor",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Spanish: autor",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Spanish: autor"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "cy",
"2": "awdur",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Welsh: awdur",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Welsh: awdur"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "inh",
"3": "itc-pro>*auktōr>authority figure",
"id": "seller"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "etymon"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "itc-pro",
"3": "*auktōr"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Italic *auktōr",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "xum",
"2": "𐌖𐌇𐌕𐌖𐌓"
},
"expansion": "Umbrian 𐌖𐌇𐌕𐌖𐌓 (uhtur)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "augeō",
"3": "-tor",
"t1": "to increase, nourish"
},
"expansion": "augeō (“to increase, nourish”) + -tor",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Italic *auktōr, cognate to Umbrian 𐌖𐌇𐌕𐌖𐌓 (uhtur). Equivalent to augeō (“to increase, nourish”) + -tor.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "auctōris",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "auctor",
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "auctrīx",
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "auctor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "auctōrēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "auctōris",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "auctōrum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "auctōrī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "auctōribus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "auctōrem",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "auctōrēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "auctōre",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "auctōribus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "auctor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "auctōrēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "autor",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "author",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"New-Latin",
"proscribed"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "auctor<3>",
"f": "auctor/auctrīx",
"g1": "m",
"g2": "f"
},
"expansion": "auctor m or f (genitive auctōris, feminine auctor or auctrīx); third declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "auctor<3>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"seller, vendor"
],
"links": [
[
"seller",
"seller"
],
[
"vendor",
"vendor"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "O Janus, make peace and its ministers everlasting,\nand may the author of such an achievement, having prevailed, not abandon it.",
"ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.287–288",
"roman": "nēve suum, praestā, dēserat auctor opus.",
"text": "Iāne, fac aeternōs pācem pācisque ministrōs,"
}
],
"glosses": [
"author, originator"
],
"links": [
[
"author",
"author"
],
[
"originator",
"originator"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "conditor"
},
{
"word": "creātor"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"authorship, agency, encouragement"
],
"links": [
[
"authorship",
"authorship"
],
[
"agency",
"agency"
],
[
"encouragement",
"encouragement"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively) authorship, agency, encouragement"
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"feminine",
"figuratively",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"sponsor, advocate"
],
"links": [
[
"sponsor",
"sponsor"
],
[
"advocate",
"advocate"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"surety, witness, voucher"
],
"links": [
[
"surety",
"surety"
],
[
"witness",
"witness"
],
[
"voucher",
"voucher"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "testis"
},
{
"word": "arbiter"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin poetic terms"
],
"glosses": [
"the Creator, God"
],
"links": [
[
"Creator",
"Creator"
],
[
"God",
"God"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(poetic) the Creator, God"
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"poetic"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Medieval Latin"
],
"glosses": [
"one who gives increase (hence: an originator, causer, doer, founder)"
],
"links": [
[
"originator",
"originator"
],
[
"doer",
"doer"
],
[
"founder",
"founder"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(also Medieval Latin) one who gives increase (hence: an originator, causer, doer, founder)"
],
"tags": [
"Medieval-Latin",
"also",
"declension-3",
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈau̯k.tɔr]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈau̯k.t̪or]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "auctor"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "noun",
"altform": "1"
},
"expansion": "auctor",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "auctour"
}
],
"categories": [
"Middle English alternative forms",
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of auctour"
],
"links": [
[
"auctour",
"auctour#Middle_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "auctor"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "auctores",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "auctora",
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "auctoras",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m",
"f": "+"
},
"expansion": "auctor m (plural auctores, feminine auctora, feminine plural auctoras)",
"name": "pt-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "autor"
}
],
"categories": [
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Portuguese countable nouns",
"Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
"Portuguese lemmas",
"Portuguese masculine nouns",
"Portuguese nouns",
"Portuguese obsolete forms"
],
"glosses": [
"Obsolete spelling of autor."
],
"links": [
[
"autor",
"autor#Portuguese"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"masculine",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"word": "auctor"
}
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