"auteur" meaning in French

See auteur in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /o.tœʁ/ Audio: Fr-auteur.ogg Forms: auteurs [plural], autrice [feminine], auteure [feminine]
Rhymes: -œʁ Etymology: Inherited from Middle French autheur, from Old French autor, from Latin auctor, from Proto-Italic *auktōr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg-, from *h₂weg-. Etymology templates: {{etymon|fr|inh|frm>autheur>author|id=author|text=++}} Inherited from Middle French autheur, from Old French autor, from Latin auctor, from Proto-Italic *auktōr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg-, from *h₂weg-. Head templates: {{fr-noun|mf|f=+|f2=auteure}} auteur m or f (plural auteurs, feminine autrice or auteure)
  1. author Tags: feminine, masculine
    Sense id: en-auteur-fr-noun-Y2SFholx
  2. composer, artist Tags: feminine, masculine
    Sense id: en-auteur-fr-noun-~m~-CDsz Categories (other): French entries with etymology texts, French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with etymology texts: 16 54 29 Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 5 85 10
  3. inventor (of discovery); perpetrator (of crime); leader (of rebellion etc.) Tags: feminine, masculine
    Sense id: en-auteur-fr-noun-lgvQ2G91
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: coauteur, droit d’auteur Related terms: écrivain

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "coauteur"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "droit d’auteur"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "mfe",
            "2": "oter"
          },
          "expansion": "Mauritian Creole: oter",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Mauritian Creole: oter"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nl",
            "2": "auteur",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Dutch: auteur, autheur (obsolete)\nAfrikaans: outeur\n→ West Frisian: auteur",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Dutch: auteur, autheur (obsolete)\nAfrikaans: outeur\n→ West Frisian: auteur"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "auteur",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: auteur",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: auteur"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "auteur",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Portuguese: auteur",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Portuguese: auteur"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "autor",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Romanian: autor",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Romanian: autor"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "inh",
        "3": "frm>autheur>author",
        "id": "author",
        "text": "++"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited from Middle French autheur, from Old French autor, from Latin auctor, from Proto-Italic *auktōr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg-, from *h₂weg-.",
      "name": "etymon"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Inherited from Middle French autheur, from Old French autor, from Latin auctor, from Proto-Italic *auktōr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg-, from *h₂weg-.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "auteurs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "autrice",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "auteure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mf",
        "f": "+",
        "f2": "auteure"
      },
      "expansion": "auteur m or f (plural auteurs, feminine autrice or auteure)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "écrivain"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
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        "author"
      ],
      "id": "en-auteur-fr-noun-Y2SFholx",
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          "author",
          "author"
        ]
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      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
      ]
    },
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            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "5 85 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "composer, artist"
      ],
      "id": "en-auteur-fr-noun-~m~-CDsz",
      "links": [
        [
          "composer",
          "composer"
        ],
        [
          "artist",
          "artist"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "inventor (of discovery); perpetrator (of crime); leader (of rebellion etc.)"
      ],
      "id": "en-auteur-fr-noun-lgvQ2G91",
      "links": [
        [
          "inventor",
          "inventor"
        ],
        [
          "perpetrator",
          "perpetrator"
        ],
        [
          "leader",
          "leader"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/o.tœʁ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Fr-auteur.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6d/Fr-auteur.ogg/Fr-auteur.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Fr-auteur.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-œʁ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "auteur"
}
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    "French 2-syllable words",
    "French countable nouns",
    "French entries with etymology texts",
    "French entries with incorrect language header",
    "French feminine nouns",
    "French lemmas",
    "French masculine nouns",
    "French nouns",
    "French nouns with multiple genders",
    "French terms derived from Latin",
    "French terms derived from Middle French",
    "French terms derived from Old French",
    "French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "French terms derived from Proto-Italic",
    "French terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂ewg-",
    "French terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂weg-",
    "French terms inherited from Latin",
    "French terms inherited from Middle French",
    "French terms inherited from Old French",
    "French terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
    "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 4 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:French/œʁ",
    "Rhymes:French/œʁ/2 syllables"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "coauteur"
    },
    {
      "word": "droit d’auteur"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "mfe",
            "2": "oter"
          },
          "expansion": "Mauritian Creole: oter",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Mauritian Creole: oter"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nl",
            "2": "auteur",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Dutch: auteur, autheur (obsolete)\nAfrikaans: outeur\n→ West Frisian: auteur",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Dutch: auteur, autheur (obsolete)\nAfrikaans: outeur\n→ West Frisian: auteur"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "auteur",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: auteur",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: auteur"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "auteur",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Portuguese: auteur",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Portuguese: auteur"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "autor",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Romanian: autor",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Romanian: autor"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "inh",
        "3": "frm>autheur>author",
        "id": "author",
        "text": "++"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited from Middle French autheur, from Old French autor, from Latin auctor, from Proto-Italic *auktōr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg-, from *h₂weg-.",
      "name": "etymon"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Inherited from Middle French autheur, from Old French autor, from Latin auctor, from Proto-Italic *auktōr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg-, from *h₂weg-.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "auteurs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "autrice",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "auteure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mf",
        "f": "+",
        "f2": "auteure"
      },
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      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "écrivain"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "author"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "author",
          "author"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "composer, artist"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "composer",
          "composer"
        ],
        [
          "artist",
          "artist"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "inventor (of discovery); perpetrator (of crime); leader (of rebellion etc.)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "inventor",
          "inventor"
        ],
        [
          "perpetrator",
          "perpetrator"
        ],
        [
          "leader",
          "leader"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/o.tœʁ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Fr-auteur.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6d/Fr-auteur.ogg/Fr-auteur.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Fr-auteur.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-œʁ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "auteur"
}

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