# auditor
## English
### Alternative forms

* auditour (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Anglo-Norman auditour, from Latin audītor (“hearer, auditor”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɔːdɪtɚ/
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### Noun

auditor (plural auditors)
* One who audits bookkeeping accounts.
* In many jurisdictions, an elected or appointed public official in charge of the public accounts; a comptroller.
* One who audits an academic course; who attends the lectures but does not earn academic credit.
* (rare) One who listens, typically as a member of an audience.
** 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:There is another of better notice, and whispered through the world with some attention; credulous and vulgar auditors readily believing it, and more judicious and distinctive heads not altogether rejecting it.
** 1851 June–July (date written), Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Gorgon’s Head”, in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, published November 1851 (indicated as 1852), →OCLC, page 32:Thus (as you will see with half an eye, my wise little auditors) these good old dames had fallen into a strange perplexity.
** 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds:Sampson's tongue was still flying with rapidity, as if his auditors had not been void of a number, while Mr. Alboni and Natalie were holding a consultation aside.
** 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:As we crossed the hall the telephone-bell rang, and we were the involuntary auditors of Professor Challenger's end of the ensuing dialogue.
* (Scientology) One trained to perform spiritual guidance procedures.

#### Derived terms

* auditorship
* coauditor
* First Amendment auditor
* frauditor
* night auditor
* subauditor
* tax auditor

#### Translations
## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈau̯dɪtor]

### Noun

auditor m anim (female equivalent auditorka)
* auditor (one who audits bookkeeping accounts)

#### Related terms

* audit

### Further reading

* “auditor”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “auditor”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “auditor”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995

## Danish
### Etymology

Doublet of auditør

### Noun

auditor c (singular definite auditoren, plural indefinite auditorer)
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#### Declension
### Further reading

* “auditor” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch auditor, from Latin audītor (“hearer, auditor”). Doublet of oditur.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [au̯ˈd̪itɔr]
* Hyphenation: au‧di‧tor

### Noun

auditor (plural auditor-auditor)
* auditor:
** one who audits bookkeeping accounts
** in many jurisdictions, an elected or appointed public official in charge of the public accounts; a comptroller

#### Synonyms

* pengaudit
* juruaudit (Standard Malay)

### Further reading

* “auditor” 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

From audiō (“hear, listen”) +‎ -tor.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /au̯ˈdiː.tor/, [äu̯ˈd̪iːt̪ɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /au̯ˈdi.tor/, [äu̯ˈd̪iːt̪or]

### Noun

audītor m (genitive audītōris); third declension
* a hearer
* an auditor
* a pupil, disciple; a person who listens to teachings
    Synonym: discipulus
* (by metonymy) a reader of a book (books were read aloud)

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Related terms

* audiēns
* audientia
* audiō
* audītiō
* audītōrium
* audītōrius
* audītus

#### Descendants

* Inherited:
** Catalan: oïdor
** Italian: uditore
** Occitan: ausidor
** Portuguese: ouvidor
** Romanian: auzitor
** Spanish: oidor
* Borrowed:
** → Catalan: auditor
** → English: auditor
** → Middle French: auditeur
*** French: auditeur
*** Norman: auditeu (Jersey)
** → Portuguese: auditor
** → Romanian: auditor
** → Russian: ауди́тор (audítor)
** → Spanish: auditor

### Verb

audītor
* second/third-person singular future passive imperative of audiō

### References

* “auditor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “auditor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "auditor", 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)
* auditor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to attend Plato's lectures: audire Platonem, auditorem esse Platonis
* auditor in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin audītōrem. Doublet of ouvidor.

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

auditor m (plural auditores, feminine auditora, feminine plural auditoras)
* auditor (one who audits bookkeeping accounts)

#### Related terms

* auditório

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French auditeur, from Latin auditor.

### Adjective

auditor m or n (feminine singular auditoare, masculine plural auditori, feminine and neuter plural auditoare)
* auditorial

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

Borrowed from Latin audītōrem. Doublet of oidor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /audiˈtoɾ/ [au̯.ð̞iˈt̪oɾ]
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: au‧di‧tor

### Noun

auditor m (plural auditores, feminine auditora, feminine plural auditoras)
* auditor (one who audits bookkeeping accounts)

#### Derived terms

* auditoría

### Further reading

* “auditor”, 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