different between typesetter vs compositor

English

Etymology

type +? setter

Noun

typesetter (plural typesetters)

1. (historical) A person who sets type; an employee in a printshop who manually selected pieces of movable type and assembled them for printing.
2. (historical) A machine that combines type in the correct order for printing.

Synonyms

• (person who sets type): compositor

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m?p?z?t?(?)/

Noun

compositor (plural compositors)

1. A person who sets type; a typesetter.
   • 1983, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge University Press, Second edition, 2005, p. 56,

     However late medieval copyists were supervised — and controls were much more lax than many accounts suggest — scribes were incapable of committing the sort of "standardized" error that was produced by a compositor who dropped the word "not" from the Seventh Commandment and thus created the "wicked" Bible of 1631.

2. One who, or that which, composes or sets in order.

3. (computer graphics) A system that puts images together in a buffer (such as individual windows on a desktop) to generate a final display image.

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin compositor.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /kom.po.zi?to/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kum.pu.zi?to/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kom.po.zi?to?/

Noun

compositor m (plural compositors, feminine compositora)

1. composer

Related terms

• compondre

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin compositor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kõpuzi?to?/
• Rhymes: -o?
• Hyphenation: com?po?si?tor

Noun

compositor m (plural compositores, feminine compositora, feminine plural compositoras)

1. composer (one who composes; an author)
2. composer (one who composes music)

Related terms

• compor

Further reading

• “compositor” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin compositor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /komposi?to?/, [kõm.po.si?t?o?]
• Hyphenation: com?po?si?tor

Noun

compositor m (plural compositores, feminine compositora, feminine plural compositoras)

1. composer

Related terms

• componer

Further reading

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