different between creator vs creationism

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)

English

Etymology

creation +? -ism

Noun

creationism (usually uncountable, plural creationisms)

1. (theology) The Abrahamic doctrine that each individual human soul is created by God, as opposed to traducianism.
2. Any creationary belief, especially a belief that the origin of things is due to an event or process of creation brought about by the deliberate act of any divine agency, such as a Creator God (creator god).
3. The belief that a deity created the world, especially as described in a particular religious text, such as the Quran or the Book of Genesis.
   • 2008, Thomas Dixon, Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction, link

Hyponyms

• intelligent design

Derived terms

Related terms

• creationist
• creationistic

Translations

Anagrams

• Marcionites, anisometric, miscreation, reactionism, romanticise