different between impresario vs director

English

Etymology

From Italian impresario.

Noun

impresario (plural impresarios or impresari)

1. A manager or producer in the entertainment industry, especially music or theatre.

Translations

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /impresa?rio/
• Hyphenation: im?pre?sa?ri?o
• Rhymes: -io

Noun

impresario (accusative singular impresarion, plural impresarioj, accusative plural impresariojn)

1. impresario

French

Noun

impresario m (plural impresarios or impresarii)

1. Alternative form of imprésario

Italian

Etymology

impresa +? -ario

Noun

impresario m (plural impresari, feminine impresaria)

1. entrepreneur, contractor
2. manager, producer, impresario
3. wheeler-dealer; unscrupulous person

Synonyms

• imprenditore

Related terms

• impresa
• impresario di pompe funebri

Anagrams

• respiriamo

English

Alternative forms

• directour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French directeur and its source Late Latin director, directorem, from Latin directus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d????kt?(?)/, /da????kt?(?)/, /da??????kt?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d????kt?/, /da????kt?/
• Rhymes: -?kt?(?)

Noun

director (plural directors, feminine directress or directrix)

1. One who directs; the person in charge of managing a department or directorate (e.g., director of engineering), project, or production (as in a show or film, e.g., film director).

2. A counselor, confessor, or spiritual guide.
3. That which directs or orientates something.
   • 1971, United States. Office of Saline Water, Distillation Digest (volume 3, page 76)

     Installed longer flow director; it now just covers the entire diameter of the 6-in. brine return nozzle, and is 4 in. high […]

4. (military) A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time.
5. (chemistry) The common axis of symmetry of the molecules of a liquid crystal.

Derived terms

• director circle
• director conic

Translations

Anagrams

• creditor

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin director, directorem, from Latin directus, attested from 1696.

Noun

director m (plural directors, feminine directora)

1. director
2. conductor
3. headteacher, principal

Related terms

• direcció
• dirigir
• directe

Further reading

• “director” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “director” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “director” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

References

Portuguese

Adjective

director m (feminine singular directora, masculine plural directores, feminine plural directoras, comparable)

1. Superseded spelling of diretor. (superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)

Noun

director m (plural directores, feminine directora, feminine plural directoras)

1. Superseded spelling of diretor. (superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)

Romanian

Etymology

From French directeur

Noun

director m (plural directori)

1. director

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin director, directorem, from Latin directus.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?

Noun

director m (plural directores, feminine directora, feminine plural directoras)

1. director
2. conductor (of musical ensembles)
3. (school) principal (North America), headmaster (Britain)

Derived terms

Related terms

• directora
• dirección
• dirigir
• directo