# editor
## English
### Alternative forms

* ed., edit. (abbreviations)
* Ed. (titular abbreviation)
* editour (obsolete, rare)

### Etymology

From Medieval Latin ēditor, from Late Latin ēditor, from ēditus, perfect passive participle of ēdō (“give out, put forth, publish”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɛd.ɪ.tə/
* Audio (UK):(file)
* (General American)
** (formal) IPA: /ˈɛ.ɾɪ.tɚ/, [ˈɛˑ.ɾɪ.tɚ]
** (lax) IPA: [ˈɛˑ.ɾɪ.ɾɚ]
** Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: ed‧i‧tor

### Noun

editor (plural editors)
* A person who edits or makes changes to documents.
** 2024 August 29, Ashley Rindsberg, “How Wikipedia Launders Regime Propaganda”, in Pirate Wires‎:Eight days after Kamala Harris announced Tim Walz as her running mate, the Criticism section on Walz’s Wikipedia article was removed in its entirety. (The removal was made by an editor with administrator status who is in the top 100 list of editors by number of edits.)
* A copy editor.
* A person who edited a specific document.
    John Johnson wrote this term paper and the editor was Joan Johnson.
* A person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or decides which ones to publish.
    John is the city editor at the Daily Times.
* A machine used for editing (cutting and splicing) movie film
* (computing) A program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files.
    Hyponym: text editor
    The TPU EVE editor is an excellent, extensible, programmable editor.
* (television, cinematography) Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.

#### Derived terms

* City editor
* coeditor
* commissioning editor
* copy editor
* deaditor
* editor-at-large
* editorial
* editorializing
* editor in chief
* editorless
* editorlike
* editorship
* editress
* Emacs
* exchange editor
* faned
* flatbed editor
* hex editor
* hex-editor
* idiotor
* input method editor
* intereditor
* letter to the editor
* linkage editor
* link editor
* makeup editor
* managing editor
* noneditor
* nonlinear editor
* photo editor
* posteditor
* preditor
* Redditor
* script editor
* stone editor
* story editor
* subeditor
* subeeditor
* yed

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/editor
* ↑ “editor”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

### Anagrams

* doiter, dotier, rioted, tie rod, tierod, triode

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēditōrem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ə.ðiˈto]
* IPA: (Valencia) [e.ðiˈtoɾ]

### Adjective

editor (feminine editora, masculine plural editors, feminine plural editores)
* editing

### Noun

editor m (plural editors, feminine editora)
* (graphic arts, publishing, computing) editor

#### Related terms

* editar
* editorial

### Further reading

* “editor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɛdɪtor]

### Noun

editor m anim
* editor (person who edits, e.g. a magazine)
    Synonym: redaktor

#### Declension
### Noun

editor m inan
* editor (computer program for entering text)

#### Declension
## Danish
### Noun

editor c (singular definite editoren, plural indefinite editorer)
* editor

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “editor” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English editor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɛdɪtɔr/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: edi‧tor

### Noun

editor m (plural editors, diminutive editortje n)
* editor (computer program to edit text documents)

## Galician
### Etymology

From Latin ēditor.

### Noun

editor m (plural editores, feminine editora, feminine plural editoras)
* editor

#### Related terms

* editar
* editorial

### Further reading

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

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From English editor, from Medieval Latin ēditor, from Late Latin ēditor, from ēditus, perfect passive participle of ēdō (“give out, put forth, publish”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɛditɔr/
* Hyphenation: èdi‧tor
* Rhymes: -ɔr

### Noun

èditor (uncountable)
* editor:
** a person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or decides which ones to publish
    Synonyms: pengedit, penyunting, redaktur
** (computing) a program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files

#### Derived terms

* editor bahasa
* editor pengelola
* editor penyelia

#### Related terms

* editorial

### Further reading

* “editor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Latin
### Etymology 1

From ēdō +‎ -tor.

#### Noun

ēditor m (genitive ēditōris); third declension
* (Late Latin) editor, publisher

##### Declension

Third-declension noun.

##### Descendants

* Catalan: editor
* Galician: editor
* Italian: editore
* Portuguese: editor
* Spanish: editor

### Etymology 2

From edō (“I eat”).

#### Verb

editor
* second/third-person singular future passive imperative of edō

### Etymology 3

From ēdō (“to give out”).

#### Verb

ēditor
* second/third-person singular future passive imperative of ēdō

### References

* “editor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* "editor", 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)

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēditor.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /e.d͡ʒiˈtoʁ/ [e.d͡ʒiˈtoh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /e.d͡ʒiˈtoʁ/ [e.d͡ʒiˈtoh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /e.d͡ʒiˈtoɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /e.d͡ʒiˈtoʁ/ [e.d͡ʒiˈtoχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /e.d͡ʒiˈtoɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /i.diˈtoɾ/ [i.ðiˈtoɾ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /i.diˈtoɾ/ [i.ðiˈtoɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /i.diˈto.ɾi/ [i.ðiˈto.ɾi]
* Hyphenation: e‧di‧tor

### Noun

editor m (plural editores, feminine editora, feminine plural editoras)
* editor (person who edits)
* publisher (person who publishes printed media)

### Noun

editor m (plural editores)
* (computer software) editor (program for modifying files, especially text files)

#### Derived terms

* editorar
* editoria

#### Related terms

* editar
* editora
* editorial

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French éditeur.

### Noun

editor m (plural editori)
* editor

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

From Latin ēditor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ediˈtoɾ/ [e.ð̞iˈt̪oɾ]
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: e‧di‧tor

### Noun

editor m (plural editores, feminine editora, feminine plural editoras)
* editor

#### Derived terms

* editor de texto

#### Related terms

* editar
* editorial

### Further reading

* “editor”, 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