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- /ˈɔː.θə/ UK
- /ˈoː.θə/ Australia, New Zealand
- /ˈɔ.θɚ/ US
- [ˈɔ.θɚ] ~ [ˈɔ.θɹ̩] US
- /ˈɑ.θɚ/ ~ /ˈɒ.θɚ/ Canada, US, cot caught merger
Rhymes with -ɔːθə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₂owg-éye-ti
Proto-Italic *augejō
Proto-Italic *augeō
Latin augeō
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin auctor
Anglo-Norman autourbor.
Middle English auctour
English author
From Middle English auctour, from Anglo-Norman autour, from Old French autor, from Latin auctor, from augeō (“to increase, originate”). The h, also found in Middle French autheur, is unetymological as there is no h in the original Latin spelling. The OED attributes the h to contamination by authentic. Doublet of auteur.
noun authors · aucthor · aucthour · auctor · auctour · auctoure
- The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition; or, one of the creators of a collaborative work. The copyright of any original writing belongs initially and properly to its author.
- The initial owner of the copyright to a work, especially a work made for hire or a work of corporate authorship. The author named on the copyright registration for the Android robot is Google Inc.
- Someone who writes books for a living.
- Principal; the primary participant in a crime. We hear […]of fratricidal murders, and stern reprisals on their authors.
- One's authority for something: an informant. Let me inform you en passant, Ladies, that those Villains the Heathens, as my Authors tell me, (and I thought it wou'd^([sic]) not be amiss to communicate such a nice Observation to this House) used to call our Saviour Chrestus, and not Christus, by way of Contempt and Derision […]
- The creator or cause of anything. The other, standing nearly head-on toward the hunters, had not proved so good a mark, and though every spear struck not one entered the great heart. For a moment the huge bull stood trumpeting in rage and pain, casting about with its little eyes for the author of its hurt.
verb authors · authoring · authored · aucthor · aucthour
- To create a work as its author.
