# inventor
## English
### Alternative forms

* inventour (obsolete)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inventor. By surface analysis, invent +‎ -or.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ɪnˈvɛntɚ/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɪnˈvɛntə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)

### Noun

inventor (plural inventors)
* One who invents, either as a hobby or as an occupation.

#### Coordinate terms

* inventress
* inventrix

#### Related terms

* invent
* inventer
* invention

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* noverint

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inventōrem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [im.bənˈto]
* IPA: (Balearic) [iɱ.vənˈto]
* IPA: (Valencia) [iɱ.venˈtoɾ]

### Adjective

inventor (feminine inventora, masculine plural inventors, feminine plural inventores)
* inventive

### Noun

inventor m (plural inventors, feminine inventora)
* inventor

#### Related terms

* invenció
* inventar

### Further reading

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

## Galician
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin inventor, inventōrem.

### Noun

inventor m (plural inventores, feminine inventora, feminine plural inventoras)
* inventor

#### Related terms

* inventar

### Further reading

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

## Latin
### Etymology

From inveniō +‎ -tor.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /inˈu̯en.tor/, [ɪnˈu̯ɛn̪t̪ɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /inˈven.tor/, [iɱˈvɛn̪t̪or]

### Noun

inventor m (genitive inventōris, feminine inventrīx); third declension
* contriver, author, discoverer, inventor

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Related terms

* inventio

#### Descendants

* Catalan: inventor
* English: inventor
* French: inventeur
** → Romanian: inventor
* Galician: inventor
* Italian: inventore
* Portuguese: inventor
** Sicilian: mminturi
* Spanish: inventor

### References

* “inventor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “inventor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* inventor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* inventor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. a legislator: legum scriptor, conditor, inventor

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inventōrem.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ĩ.vẽˈtoʁ/ [ĩ.vẽˈtoh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ĩ.vẽˈtoʁ/ [ĩ.vẽˈtoh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ĩ.vẽˈtoɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ĩ.vẽˈtoʁ/ [ĩ.vẽˈtoχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ĩ.vẽˈtoɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ĩ.vẽˈtoɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ĩ.vẽˈtoɾ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ĩ.bẽˈtoɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ĩ.vẽˈto.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: in‧ven‧tor

### Noun

inventor m (plural inventores, feminine inventora, feminine plural inventoras)
* inventor (one who invents things)

#### Related terms

* invenção
* inventar

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French inventeur.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /in.venˈtor/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -or
* Hyphenation: in‧ven‧tor

### Noun

inventor m (plural inventori)
* (obsolete) Synonym of inventator (“inventor”).

#### Declension
### Further reading

* inventor in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inventōrem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /imbenˈtoɾ/ [ĩm.bẽn̪ˈt̪oɾ]
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: in‧ven‧tor

### Noun

inventor m (plural inventores, feminine inventora or inventriz, feminine plural inventoras or inventrices)
* inventor (one who invents things)

#### Related terms

* invención
* inventar

### Further reading

* “inventor”, 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