# compositor
## English
### Etymology

From French compositeur, from Latin compositor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kəmˈpɒzɪtə(ɹ)/

### Noun

compositor (plural compositors)
* A person who sets type; a typesetter.
** 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
** 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter IV, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:All Spaniards, we discovered, knew two English expressions. One was 'O.K., baby', the other was a word used by the Barcelona whores in their dealings with English sailors, and I am afraid the compositors would not print it.
** 1983, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge University Press, Second edition, 2005, p. 56:However late medieval copyists were supervised — and controls were much more lax than many accounts suggest — scribes were incapable of committing the sort of "standardized" error that was produced by a compositor who dropped the word "not" from the Seventh Commandment and thus created the "wicked" Bible of 1631.
* One who, or that which, composes or sets in order.
    I work as an image compositor.
* (computer graphics) A system that puts images together in a buffer (such as individual windows on a desktop) to generate a final display image.

#### Derived terms

* compositorial
* compositress

#### Related terms

* compose
* composer
* composite
* composition
* compositionist

#### Translations
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin compositōrem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [kum.pu.ziˈto]
* IPA: (Balearic) [kom.po.ziˈto]
* IPA: (Valencia) [kom.po.ziˈtoɾ]

### Noun

compositor m (plural compositors, feminine compositora)
* composer

#### Related terms

* compondre

### Further reading

* “compositor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “compositor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “compositor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “compositor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Etymology

From Latin compositor.

### Noun

compositor m (plural compositores, feminine compositora, feminine plural compositoras)
* composer (one who composes music)

#### Related terms

* compor, compoñer

### Further reading

* “compositor”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Latin
### Etymology

compositus, perfect passive participle of compōnō (“to arrange”) +‎ -tor

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /komˈpo.si.tor/, [kɔmˈpɔs̠ɪt̪ɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /komˈpo.si.tor/, [komˈpɔːs̬it̪or]

### Noun

compositor m (genitive compositōris); third declension
* a maker, arranger, composer

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Related terms

* compositiō

#### Descendants

* Catalan: compositor
* French: compositeur
* Galician: compositor
* Italian: compositore
* Portuguese: compositor
* Romanian: compozitor
* Spanish: compositor

### References

* “compositor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “compositor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin compositōrem.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /kõ.po.ziˈtoʁ/ [kõ.po.ziˈtoh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /kõ.po.ziˈtoʁ/ [kõ.po.ziˈtoh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /kõ.po.ziˈtoɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /kõ.po.ziˈtoʁ/ [kõ.po.ziˈtoχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /kõ.po.ziˈtoɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kõ.pu.ziˈtoɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kõ.pu.ziˈtoɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /kõ.pu.ziˈto.ɾi/
* Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
* Hyphenation: com‧po‧si‧tor

### Noun

compositor m (plural compositores, feminine compositora, feminine plural compositoras)
* composer (one who composes; an author)
* composer (one who composes music)
* (music) songwriter

#### Related terms

* compor

### Further reading

* “compositor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin compositor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /komposiˈtoɾ/ [kõm.po.siˈt̪oɾ]
* Audio (Spain):(file)
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: com‧po‧si‧tor

### Noun

compositor m (plural compositores, feminine compositora, feminine plural compositoras)
* composer

#### Related terms

* componer

### Further reading

* “compositor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10