# autor
## English
### Noun

autor (plural autors)
* Obsolete form of author.
** 1558, Bartho[lomew] Traheron, An Exposition of a Parte of S. Iohannes Gospel Made in Sondrie Readinges in the English Congregation […] :Iohan Baptiſt than ſheweth a reaſon, why he ſaide, that the lord Ieſus was before him, bicauſe, ſaieth he, he was my firſt, that is to ſaye, my prince, my head, my autor, my maker.
** 1580, “Anglo-phile Eutheo to the Reader,S”, in A Second and Third Blast of Retrait from Plaies and Theaters: […]:VVhereby first, note with me, the goodnes of our God toward vs, who ſeeing that we wil not shun plaies for anie dehortations of his godlie Preachers, who daie by daie in al places of greatest reſort denounce the vengeance of GOD to them, be they hie or lowe, that fauor plaies, Theaters, or plaiers, ſtirreth vp the verie Autors themſelues to inueigh against them, that we maie be ashamed any waie to allowe that, which the verie Autors do vtterlie condemne.
** 1593, Gabriell Harvey, “To my very gentle, and liberal Frendes, M. Barnabe Barnes, M. John Thorius, M. Anthony Chewt, and every favorable Reader”, in Pierces Supererogation: or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparative to Certaine Larger Discourses, Intituled Nashes S. Fame., London: […] Iohn Wolfe, page 5:[…]; in the one, eſteeming Plutarch or Homer as an hundred autors; in the other, valuing Cato or Scipio as a thouſand examples.

## Albanian
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin auctor.

### Noun

autór m
* author

#### Derived terms

* bashkautor (“co-author”)

### Further reading

* “autor”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
* FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980
* Newmark, L. (1999) “autor”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎

## Aragonese
### Alternative forms

* fautor

### Etymology

From Latin auctor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /au̯ˈto(ɾ)/
* Rhymes: -o(ɾ)
* Syllabification: au‧tor

### Noun

autor m (plural autors, feminine autora, feminine plural autoras)
* author

### References

* “autor”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)
* Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “autor”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

## Asturian
### Etymology

From Latin auctor.

### Noun

autor m (plural autores)
* author

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin auctōrem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [əwˈto]
* IPA: (Valencia) [awˈtoɾ]

### Noun

autor m (plural autors, feminine autora)
* author

#### Derived terms

* coautor

### Further reading

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

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈau̯tor]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: au‧tor

### Noun

autor m anim (female equivalent autorka)
* author

#### Derived terms

* autorský
* autorův

#### Related terms

* autorita
* autoritativní
* autoritář
* autoritářský
* autoritářství
* autorizace
* autorizovat

### Further reading

* “autor”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “autor”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “autor”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Galician
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese autor, from Latin auctor, from Proto-Italic *auktōr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg-, from *h₂weg-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /awˈtoɾ/ [ɑwˈt̪oɾ]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Hyphenation: au‧tor

### Noun

autor m (plural autores, feminine autora, feminine plural autoras)
* author (originator or creator of a work)
* (loosely) causer; originator; instigator
* (criminal law) perpetrator

### References

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

## Interlingua
### Noun

autor (plural autores)
* author

## Latin
### Etymology

Late variant of auctor under influence of descendants such as Italian autore.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈau̯.tor/, [ˈäu̯t̪ɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈau̯.tor/, [ˈäːu̯t̪or]

### Noun

autor m (genitive autōris); third declension
* (New Latin, proscribed) Alternative form of auctor: source, creator, vendor, author, artist.

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

## Lombard
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /awˈtuːr/ (Milanese)

### Noun

autor m (feminine form autris)
* author

## Middle English
### Noun

autor
* Alternative form of auctour

## Occitan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [awˈtu]
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

From Latin auctor.

#### Noun

autor m (plural autors, feminine autora, feminine plural autoras)
* author

### Etymology 2

From aut +‎ -or.

#### Alternative forms

* nautor (Languedoc)
* hautor (Gascon)

#### Noun

autor f (plural autors)
* (Provençal) height

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* auctor, auctour, auctur, autour, autur

### Etymology

From Latin auctor, from Proto-Italic *auktōr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg-, from *h₂weg-.

### Noun

autor oblique singular, m (oblique plural autors, nominative singular autors, nominative plural autor)
* author (writer)
* creator; instigator

#### Descendants

* Middle French: autheur, aucteur, auctour, auteur, autteur
** French: auteur (see there for further descendants)
* → Middle English: auctour, auctor, autor, autour, author, auther
** English: author
** Scots: author

### References

* auctor on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
* Etymology and history of “auteur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin auctor, from Proto-Italic *auktōr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg-, from *h₂weg-.

#### Alternative forms

* auctor

#### Noun

autor m (plural autores)
* author (originator or creator of a work)
** 1300, Alfonso X of Castile, [Xeral Historia]; republished as chapter I, in Ramón Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, 1963, page 212:(please add the primary text of this quotation)[Sobre esta rrazõ conta hũ autor em hũ libro que cõposo das estorias da nossa ley et das falas dos gentíj́s […] ](please add an English translation of this quotation)

##### Descendants

* Galician: autor
* Portuguese: autor

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

autor m (plural autores)
* Alternative form of abtor

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “a@tor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “auc?tor”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Piedmontese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /awˈtur/

### Noun

autor m
* author

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Autor. Compare Kashubian aùtór and Silesian autōr. First attested in 1556–1557.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaw.tɔr/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -awtɔr
* Syllabification: au‧tor

### Noun

autor m pers (female equivalent autorka, diminutive autorek, related adjective autorski or autorczy)
* author (originator or creator of a work)
    Synonym: twórca
    Hyponyms: pisarz, literat
* originator (originator of some actions)
* (proscribed) doer (one who does something)

#### Derived terms

* autorstwo

#### Related terms

* autorsko

#### Descendants

* → Russian: а́втор (ávtor), авторъ (avtor) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
** → Eastern Mari: автор (avtor)
** → Georgian: ავტორი (avṭori)
** → Ingrian: avtora
** → Kazakh: автор (avtor)
** → Yakut: ааптар (aaptar)

### Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), autor is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 27 times in scientific texts, 23 times in news, 27 times in essays, 6 times in fiction, and 5 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 88 times, making it the 719th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

### References

* ↑ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “autor”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
* ↑ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “autor”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
* ↑ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “autor”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
* ↑ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “autor”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
* ↑ Ida Kurcz (1990) “autor”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 15

### Further reading

* autor in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* autor in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Danuta Lankiewicz (29.08.2018) “AUTOR”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
* Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “autor”, in Słownik języka polskiego
* Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “autor”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
* J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “autor”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 73
* autor in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /awˈtoʁ/ [aʊ̯ˈtoh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /awˈtoʁ/ [aʊ̯ˈtoh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /awˈtoɾ/ [aʊ̯ˈtoɾ]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /awˈtoʁ/ [aʊ̯ˈtoχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /awˈtoɻ/ [aʊ̯ˈtoɻ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /awˈtoɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /awˈtoɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /awˈto.ɾi/
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Hyphenation: au‧tor

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese autor, from Latin auctor, from Proto-Italic *auktōr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg-, from *h₂weg-. Doublet of auteur.

#### Alternative forms

* auctor (obsolete)

#### Noun

autor m (plural autores, feminine autora, feminine plural autoras)
* author (originator or creator of a work)
    Synonym: artista
* author (someone who writes books for a living)
    Synonym: escritor
* (loosely) causer; originator; instigator
    Synonym: instigador
** 2017, “Desastre” (0:38 from the start), in 1775, performed by Moonspell, Lisbon: Napalm:És apenas um homem / Um escravo de Deus / Autor do desastre que aconteceuYou're just a man. A slave of God. Causer of the disaster that occured
* (criminal law) perpetrator
    Synonym: perpetrador

##### Derived terms

* autoria

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese abtor, borrowed from Latin actor, from āctus + -tor. Doublet of ator.

#### Noun

autor m (plural autores, feminine autora, feminine plural autoras)
* (law, archaic) plaintiff
    Synonyms: querelante, acusação

### References

* “autor”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* “autor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
* “autor”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “autor”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French auteur, or Latin auctor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.uˈtor/

### Noun

autor m (plural autori, feminine equivalent autoare)
* author

#### Derived terms

* autorlâc

### See also

* scriitor

### Further reading

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

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ǎutor/
* Hyphenation: a‧u‧tor

### Noun

àutor m (Cyrillic spelling а̀утор)
* author

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin auctor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /auˈtoɾ/ [au̯ˈt̪oɾ]
* Audio (Venezuela):(file)
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: au‧tor

### Noun

autor m (plural autores, feminine autora, feminine plural autoras)
* author
    Synonym: escribiente
* perpetrator of a crime
    Synonyms: perpetrador, responsable

#### Derived terms

* autor intelectual
* autoría
* cine de autor
* coautor
* de autor
* derecho de autor
* derechos de autor
* muerte del autor
* teatro de autor

#### Related terms

* aumentar
* aumento
* autoridad

#### Descendants

* → Bikol Central: awtór, otor
* → Tagalog: awtór, otor

### Further reading

* “autor”, 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

### Anagrams

* Tauro, urato