different between creationary vs creator

English

Etymology

From creation +? -ary.

Adjective

creationary

1. Of or relating to creation.
   • 1894, James Hutchison Stirling, Darwinianism: workmen and work

     Nay, let us but consider this, that, under a general creationary theory,—before any one evolutionary doctrine, Lamarckian, Vestigian, Erasmo-Darwinian, Carlo-Darwinian, or other, came up,—never, whether in affinities, or embryology, or geology, or geography, or even rudimentary organs, was there a single difficulty felt,—let us but consider this I say, and it will be plain to be seen that all that concerns affinities and the rest constitutes no fee-simple that shall be proper and peculiar to natural selection alone. (p. 151)

     But these homologies and the rest we hold ourselves dispensed from the consideration of, simply in view of the fact that they were a material common to all the evolutionary theories, and never on the whole denied even by the creationary ones. (p. 341)

   • 1951, Charles Francis Potter, The preacher and I: an autobiography

     The evolutionary hypothesis or theory is a much better theory than the creationary theory, but it is still only a theory, and Dr. Straton had only to point out that fact.

Synonyms

• creational

Antonyms

• noncreational, non-creational
• noncreationary, non-creationary

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• reactionary

English

Alternative forms

• creatour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English creatour, from Old French creator, creatur, creatour, from Latin cre?tor, agent noun from perfect passive participle cre?tus (“created”), from verb cre? (“I create”) + agent suffix -or.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?i?e?t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?i??e?t?/
• Rhymes: -e?t?(?)

Noun

creator (plural creators, feminine creatress or creatrix)

1. Something or someone which creates or makes something.

2. (social media) Someone who regularly produces and publishes content on social media, especially of a monetizable nature.

   Coordinate term: influencer
3. (religion, sometimes capitalized) The deity that created the world.

Usage notes

• Usually capitalized as Creator when referring to a specific deity.

Related terms

• create
• creation
• creational
• creationary
• creative
• creatrix
• creature
• procreate
• recreate
• recreation

Translations

Anagrams

• Carreto, Cerrato, acroter, reactor

Latin

Etymology

From cre? (“I create, make”) + -?tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kre?a?.tor/, [k?e?ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kre?a.tor/, [k?????t??r]

Noun

cre?tor m (genitive cre?t?ris, feminine cre?tr?x); third declension

1. a creator, author, founder
2. a person who elects or appoints to an office
3. the creator of the world; God

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• cre?tr?x

Related terms

Descendants

Verb

cre?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of cre?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of cre?

References

• creator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• creator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• creator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• creator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Old French

Noun

creator m (oblique plural creators, nominative singular creators, nominative plural creator)

1. Alternative form of creatur

Romanian

Etymology

From French créateur, from Latin cre?tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kre.a?tor/

Adjective

creator m or n (feminine singular creatoare, masculine plural creatori, feminine and neuter plural creatoare)

1. creative

Declension

Noun

creator m (plural creatori)

1. creator (person who creates, who founds something)
2. (religion) God

Declension

Further reading

• creator in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)