different between recreation vs creator

English

Etymology 1

From Middle French récréation, from Old French recreacion, from Latin recreatio.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: r?-kr?-??sh?n, IPA^(key): /??k?i?e???n/
• (US) enPR: r?-kr?-??sh?n, IPA^(key): /??k?i?e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

recreation (countable and uncountable, plural recreations)

1. Any activity, such as play, that amuses, diverts or stimulates.

Synonyms

• leisure

Derived terms

Related terms

• recreate

Translations

Etymology 2

re- +? creation

Alternative forms

• re-creation

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: r?-kr?-??sh?n, IPA^(key): /?i?k?i?e???n/
• (US) enPR: r?-kr?-??sh?n, IPA^(key): /?i?k?i?e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

recreation (plural recreations)

1. The process of recreating something.
2. The result of this process.

Usage notes

Hyphenated form re-creation avoids confusion with more common other sense.

Related terms

• recreate

Translations

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)

1. Something or someone which creates or makes something.

2. (social media) Someone who regularly produces and publishes content on social media, especially of a monetizable nature.

   Coordinate term: influencer
3. (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

1. a creator, author, founder
2. a person who elects or appoints to an office
3. the creator of the world; God

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• cre?tr?x

Related terms

Descendants

Verb

cre?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of cre?
2. 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)

1. 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)

1. creative

Declension

Noun

creator m (plural creatori)

1. creator (person who creates, who founds something)
2. (religion) God

Declension

Further reading

• creator in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)