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creator
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)
- Something or someone which creates or makes something.
- (social media) Someone who regularly produces and publishes content on social media, especially of a monetizable nature.
- Coordinate term: influencer
- (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
- a creator, author, founder
- a person who elects or appoints to an office
- the creator of the world; God
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
- cre?tr?x
Related terms
Descendants
Verb
cre?tor
- second-person singular future passive imperative of cre?
- 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)
- 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)
- creative
Declension
Noun
creator m (plural creatori)
- creator (person who creates, who founds something)
- (religion) God
Declension
Further reading
- creator in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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father
English
Etymology
From Middle English fader, from Old English fæder, from Proto-West Germanic *fader, from Proto-Germanic *fad?r, from Proto-Indo-European *ph?t?r. Doublet of ayr, faeder, padre, pater, and père.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fä'th?(r), IPA(key): /?f??ð?(?)/
- (General American) enPR: fä'th?r, IPA(key): /?f?ð?/
- (General Australian) enPR: fä'th?, IPA(key): /?fa?ð?/
- (obsolete) enPR: f?'th?r, IPA(key): /?fæð??/
- Homophone: farther (in non-rhotic accents)
- Rhymes: -??ð?(r)
- Hyphenation: fa?ther
Noun
father (plural fathers)
- A (generally human) male who begets a child.
- A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
- A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
- A term of respectful address for a priest.
- A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
- The founder of a discipline or science.
- Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
- 1991, The Nairobi Law Monthly:
- Soon after the announcement of this year's election results, Mereka said that "the father of all battles had just begun." His dispute with Muite goes back to March last year […]
- 2002, Financial Management:
- "If UK GDP slows by 1 per cent, there is the mother and father of all recessions. It was exciting, but very bizarre, working in such an environment."
- 2012, Zubairu Wai, Epistemologies of African Conflicts: Violence, Evolutionism, and the War in Sierra Leone, Palgrave Macmillan: (?ISBN), page 93:
- “The Father of All Battles”
- On March 23, 1991, a band of armed insurgents attacked the town of Bomaru […]
- 1991, The Nairobi Law Monthly:
- Something inanimate that begets.
Synonyms
- (parent): see Thesaurus:father
- (most significant thing): see mother and granddaddy
Antonyms
- (with regards to gender) mother
- (with regards to ancestry) son, daughter, child
Hypernyms
- (a male parent): parent
Derived terms
Related terms
- Father
- Jupiter
- paternal
Translations
Verb
father (third-person singular simple present fathers, present participle fathering, simple past and past participle fathered)
- To be a father to; to sire.
- 1592, William Shakespeare, 1 Henry VI v 4
- Well, go to; we'll have no bastards live; Especially since Charles must father it.
- 1592, William Shakespeare, 1 Henry VI v 4
- (figuratively) To give rise to.
- 1610, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline ii 2
- Cowards father cowards and base things sire base.
- 1610, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline ii 2
- To act as a father; to support and nurture.
- 1610, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline iv 2
- Ay, good youth! And rather father thee than master thee.
- 1610, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline iv 2
- To provide with a father.
- To adopt as one's own.
- 1713, Jonathan Swift, Imitation of Horace, Book I. Ep. VII.
- Kept company with men of wit / Who often fathered what he writ.
- 1713, Jonathan Swift, Imitation of Horace, Book I. Ep. VII.
Translations
See also
- beget
- grandpa
- pater
- paternal
- sire
Anagrams
- afther, fareth, hafter, trefah
Middle English
Noun
father
- (Late Middle English) Alternative form of fader
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