different between forebear vs author
forebear
English
Alternative forms
- forbear
Etymology
Late 15th century, from fore- +? beer (“one who is or exists”, literally “be-er”).
Noun
forebear (plural forebears)
- An ancestor.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 566:
- One day, among the days, he bethought him of this and fell lamenting for that the most part of his existence was past and he had not been vouchsafed a son, to inherit the kingdom after him, even as he had inherited it from his fathers and forebears; by reason whereof there betided him sore cark and care and chagrin exceeding.
- [1906] 2004, Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville, Ethel Wedgwood tr.
- Sirs, I am quite sure that the King of England's forbears rightly and justly lost the conquered lands that I hold […]
- [1936] 2004, Raymond William Firth, We the Tikopia [1]
- One does not take one’s family name therefrom, and again the position of the mother in that group is determined through her father and his male forbears in turn; this too is a patrilineal group.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 566:
Usage notes
- Not to be confused with: forbear verb.
Antonyms
- afterbear
Translations
Verb
forebear (third-person singular simple present forebears, present participle forebearing, simple past forebore, past participle foreborne)
- Obsolete spelling of forbear
Anagrams
- forbeare
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author
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)
- 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.
- (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 […]
- 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- Someone who writes books for a living.
- (obsolete, criminal law) Principal.
- (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 […]
- 1699, Seven new Colloquies translated out of Erasmus
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)
- (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
- (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
- Alternative form of auctour
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