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English

Alternative forms

• inventour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inventor.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?v?nt?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?v?nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?(?)

Noun

inventor (plural inventors)

1. One who invents, either as a hobby or as an occupation.

Coordinate terms

• inventress
• inventrix

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• noverint

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inventor, invent?rem.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /im.v?n?to/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /im.b?n?to/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /im.ven?to?/

Adjective

inventor (feminine inventora, masculine plural inventors, feminine plural inventores)

1. inventive

Noun

inventor m (plural inventors, feminine inventora)

1. inventor

Related terms

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inventor, invent?rem.

Noun

inventor m (plural inventores, feminine inventora, feminine plural inventoras)

1. inventor

Related terms

• inventar

Further reading

• “inventor” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Latin

Etymology

From inveni? +? -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /in?u?en.tor/, [?n?u??n?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in?ven.tor/, [in?v?n?t??r]

Noun

inventor m (genitive invent?ris, feminine inventr?x); third declension

1. contriver, author, discoverer, inventor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• inventio

Descendants

References

• inventor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• inventor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• inventor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• inventor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inventor, invent?rem.

Noun

inventor m (plural inventores, feminine inventora, feminine plural inventoras)

1. inventor (one who invents things)

Related terms

Romanian

Etymology

From French inventeur.

Noun

inventor m (plural inventori)

1. (dated) inventor

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inventor, invent?rem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /imben?to?/, [?m.b?n??t?o?]

Noun

inventor m (plural inventores, feminine inventora or inventriz, feminine plural inventoras or inventrices)

1. inventor (one who invents things)

Related terms

Further reading

• “inventor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Middle English inventorie, from Old French inventoire (whence French inventaire), from Late Latin inventarium, from Latin invenire (“to find out”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??n.v?n.t?i/, /?n?v?n.t?.?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??n.v?n?t?.?i/

Noun

inventory (plural inventories)

1. (operations) The stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business.

   Due to an undersized inventory at the Boston outlet, customers had to travel to Providence to find the item.

2. (operations) A detailed list of all of the items on hand.

   The inventory included several items that one wouldn't normally think to find at a cheese shop.

3. (operations) The process of producing or updating such a list.

   This month's inventory took nearly three days.

4. (role-playing games) A space containing the items available to a character for immediate use.

   You can't get through the underground tunnel if there are more than three items in your inventory.

5. (linguistics, especially phonology) The total set of a (specified) linguistic feature (within a language etc.)

   Germanic languages have a marked tendency towards large vocalic inventories.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:list

Related terms

• invent
• invented
• inventive
• invention
• inventor
• reinvent

Translations

Verb

inventory (third-person singular simple present inventories, present participle inventorying, simple past and past participle inventoried)

1. (transitive, operations) To take stock of the resources or items on hand; to produce an inventory.

   The main job of the night shift was to inventory the store, and restock when necessary.

Synonyms

• index
• inventorize
• take inventory
• take stock

Translations

Further reading

• inventory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• inventory in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.