different between maker vs inventor

English

Etymology

From Middle English maker, makere, equivalent to make +? -er. Compare English makar, Scots makar, West Frisian makker, Dutch maker, German Macher, Danish mager, Swedish makare.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?me?k.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?me?k.?/
• Rhymes: -e?k?(r)

Noun

maker (plural makers)

1. Someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something.
2. (usually capitalized and preceded by the) God.
3. (now rare) A poet.
   • c. 1521, John Skelton, “Speke Parott”:

     Set ?ophia a?yde, for euery iack raker
     And euery mad medler mu?t now be a maker

   • 2000, Alasdair Gray, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury 2002, p. 9:

     It is refreshing to read how makers find great allies in the past to help them tackle the present. It helps us to see that literature is a conversation across boundaries of nation, century and language.

4. (law) Someone who signs a promissory note, thereby becoming responsible for payment.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• kerma, marke

Dutch

Etymology

From maken (“to make”) +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?.k?r/
• Hyphenation: ma?ker
• Rhymes: -a?k?r

Noun

maker m (plural makers, diminutive makertje n, feminine maakster)

1. maker (person or thing that makes, produces or repairs something)

Derived terms

• druktemaker
• fietsenmaker
• gangmaker
• praatjesmaker
• schoenmaker
• schoonmaker
• stratenmaker

Anagrams

• kamer

Middle English

Alternative forms

• makere, makiere, makyere, macare

Etymology

From maken +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?k?r(?)/

Noun

maker (plural makers)

1. God as creator of all.
2. Someone who makes; a craftsperson.
3. An author or other creative.
4. (rare) One who does.

Derived terms

• bellemaker
• monymaker
• patynmaker

Descendants

• English: maker
• Scots: maker, macker, makar
  • ? English: makar

References

• “m?ker(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

maker m

1. indefinite plural of make

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.