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English

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EnglishWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishauctour, fromAnglo-Normanautour, fromOld Frenchautor, fromLatinauctor, fromaugeō(“to increase, originate”). Theh, also found inMiddle Frenchautheur, isunetymological as there is noh in the original Latin spelling. The OED attributes theh tocontamination byauthentic.Doublet ofauteur.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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author (pluralauthors)

  1. Theoriginator orcreator of awork, especially of aliterarycomposition; or, one of the creators of a collaborative work.
    The copyright of any original writing belongs initially and properly to itsauthor.
    Have you read any Corinthianauthors?
    This paper has threeauthors.
    • 1667,John Milton, “Book III”, inParadise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];[a]nd by Robert Boulter […];[a]nd Matthias Walker, […],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […],1873,→OCLC:
      Eternal King; thee,Author of all being.
    • 1661,John Fell,The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond‎[1]:
      During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classicauthors that are extant[…]
    • 1755,Samuel Johnson,A Dictionary of the English Language, Preface:
      The chief glory of every people arises from itsauthors.
    • 1661,John Fell,The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond‎[2]:
      During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classicauthors that are extant[…]
  2. Someone who writesbooks for a living.
  3. (obsolete, criminal law)Principal; theprimaryparticipant in acrime.
    • 1879, F. D. Morice,Pindar,chapter 10, page158:
      We hear[…]of fratricidal murders, and stern reprisals on theirauthors.
    • 1894, Franco-Siamese Mixed Court,The Case of Kieng Chek (Kham Muon) before the Franco-Siamese Mixed Court‎[3], Bangkok: n.p., page 4:
      Accomplices of a crime or an offence shall incur the same punishment as theauthors of such a crime or offence, except when the law will have disposed otherwise.
  4. (archaic) One'sauthority for something: aninformant.
    • 1699,Seven new Colloquies translated out of Erasmus:
      Let me inform youen passant, Ladies, that those Villains theHeathens, as myAuthors tell me, (and I thought it wou'd[sic] not be amiss to communicate such a nice Observation to this House) used to call our SaviourChrestus, and notChristus, by way of Contempt and Derision[…]
    • 1896, Robert Louis Stevenson,Weir of Hermiston:
      'Wanting the hat,' continues myauthor, Kirstie, whom I but haltingly follow, for she told this tale like one inspired, 'wanting guns, for there wasna twa grains o' pouder in the house, wi' nae mair weepons than their sticks into their hands, the fower o' them took the road.

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Translations

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originator or creator of a work
writer—seewriter
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Verb

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author (third-person singular simple presentauthors,present participleauthoring,simple past and past participleauthored)

  1. (chiefly US, sometimes proscribed) Tocreate a work as itsauthor.

Derived terms

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Translations

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to create a work as its author

Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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Late variant ofauctor andautor under influence of descendants such asEnglishauthor.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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author m (genitiveauthōris);third declension

  1. (New Latin, proscribed)Alternative form ofauctor:source,creator,vendor,author,artist.

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singularplural
nominativeauthorauthōrēs
genitiveauthōrisauthōrum
dativeauthōrīauthōribus
accusativeauthōremauthōrēs
ablativeauthōreauthōribus
vocativeauthorauthōrēs

References

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  • “author”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    “auctor”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • auctor inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page184f..

Middle English

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Noun

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author

  1. Alternative form ofauctour
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