different between author vs designer

English

Alternative forms

• authour (obsolete)
• auctor (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English auctour, from Anglo-Norman autour, from Old French autor, from Latin auctor, from auge? (“to increase, originate”). The h, also found in English autheur, is unetymological as there is no h in the original Latin spelling. The OED attributes the h to contamination by authentic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???.??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??.??/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /??.??/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /???.t??/
• Rhymes: -????(r)
• Hyphenation: au?thor

Noun

author (plural authors)

1. The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.
   • 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond

     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 classic authors that are extant […]

   • 1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language Preface

     The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

   1. (with definite article: "the author") I, me. used in academic articles instead of a first-person pronoun.
   • 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond

     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 classic authors that are extant […]

2. Someone who writes books for a living.
3. (obsolete, criminal law) Principal.
4. (obsolete) One's authority for something: an informant.
   • 1699, Seven new Colloquies translated out of Erasmus

     Let me inform you en passant, Ladies, that those Villains the Heathens, as my Authors 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 Saviour Chrestus, and not Christus, by way of Contempt and Derision […]

Synonyms

• (creator of a work): bookwright, creator, artist, subcreator, fabulator, writer

Derived terms

• authoress, authress
• author of life

Related terms

• authorization or authorisation
• authority
• authorship
• auteur

Translations

Verb

author (third-person singular simple present authors, present participle authoring, simple past and past participle authored)

1. (chiefly US, sometimes proscribed) To create a work as its author.

Derived terms

• authorable

Translations

Anagrams

• Hotaru

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?au?.t?or/, [?äu?t???r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?au?.tor/, [???u?t??r]

Noun

author m (genitive auth?ris); third declension

1. (proscribed) Alternative form of auctor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

• author in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  auctor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• auctor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 184f.

Middle English

Noun

author

1. Alternative form of auctour

English

Etymology

design +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??za?n?/
• Rhymes: -a?n?(?)

Noun

designer (plural designers)

1. A person who designs something, or who designs things as a profession.
2. A plotter or schemer.
3. (computing) A software tool for designing things.

   a font designer

   a level designer for a video game

Derived terms

• graphic designer
• designership

Descendants

Translations

Adjective

designer (not comparable)

1. Created by a designer, especially a fashion designer.

   designer swimwear

   a designer briefcase

Derived terms

• designer baby
• designer dog
• designer drug

Anagrams

• Edingers, energids, enridges, re-signed, redesign, reedings, resigned

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English designer. Equivalent to design +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?z?i?.n?r/
• Hyphenation: de?sig?ner

Noun

designer m (plural designers, diminutive designertje n)

1. designer

Synonyms

• ontwerper

Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English designer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dis?i?ner/, [?dis??i?ne?r]

Noun

designer

1. designer

   Synonym: suunnittelija

Declension

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English designer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.zaj.nœ?/

Noun

designer m (plural designers)

1. designer

Etymology 2

English design +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.zaj.ne/

Verb

designer

1. to design

Conjugation

Anagrams

• dénigres, dénigrés, geindres, gredines

Further reading

• “designer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English designer.

Noun

designer m or f (invariable)

1. designer (especially one who designs furniture or other industrial products)

Latin

Verb

d?signer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of d?sign?

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

designer

1. present tense of designe

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English designer.

Noun

designer m, f (plural designers)

1. designer (person who designs)

Swedish

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

designer

1. indefinite plural of design

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English designer.

Noun

designer c

1. a designer

Declension