inventor

English

Alternative forms

• inventour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inventor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɛntɚ/
• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɛntə/

• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)

Noun

inventor (plural inventors)

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

Coordinate terms

• inventress
• inventrix

Related terms

• invent
• inventer
• invention

 

Translations

one who invents

• Arabic: مُخْتَرِع m (muḵtariʕ), مُبْتَكِر m (mubtakir)
• Armenian: գյուտարար (hy) (gyutarar)
• Belarusian: вынахо́днік m (vynaxódnik), вынахо́дніца f (vynaxódnica)
• Bulgarian: изобрета́тел (bg) m (izobretátel), откривател (bg) m (otkrivatel)
• Catalan: inventor (ca) m, inventora (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發明家／发明家 (zh) (fāmíngjiā), 发明家 (zh) (fāmíngjiā)

• Czech: vynálezce (cs) m
• Dutch: uitvinder (nl) m
• Esperanto: (♂♀) inventisto, (♀) inventistino
• Finnish: keksijä (fi)
• French: inventeur (fr) m, inventrice (fr) f
• Galician: inventor m
• German: Erfinder (de) m, Erfinderin (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: καινουργός m (kainourgós), ἐπινοητής m (epinoētḗs), εὑρετής m (heuretḗs)

• Hungarian: feltaláló (hu)
• Irish: aireagóir
• Italian: inventore (it) m, inventrice f, ideatore (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 発明者 (はつめいしゃ, hatsumeisha)
• Kazakh: өнертапқыш (önertapqyş)
• Latin: inventor m, inventrix f, repertor m
• Mongolian: зохион бүтээгч (zoxion büteegč), ᠵᠣᠬᠢᠶᠠᠨ
  ᠪᠦᠲᠦᠭᠡᠭᠴᠢ (ǰokiyan bütügeɣči)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oppfinner m

• Persian: مخترع (fa) (moxtare)
• Polish: wynalazca (pl) m, wynalazczyni (pl) f
• Portuguese: inventor (pt) m, inventora f
• Russian: изобрета́тель (ru) m (izobretátelʹ), изобрета́тельница (ru) f (izobretátelʹnica)
• Spanish: inventor (es) m, inventora f, inventriz f
• Swedish: uppfinnare (sv) c
• Thai: นักประดิษฐ์ (nák-bprà-dìt)
• Turkish: mucit (tr)
• Ukrainian: винахі́дник m (vynaxídnyk), винахі́дниця f (vynaxídnycja)
• Uyghur: كەشپىياتچى (keshpiyatchi)
• Volapük: (♂♀) datuvan (vo), (♂) hidatuvan, (♀) jidatuvan

Anagrams

• noverint

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inventor, inventōrem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [im.bənˈto]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [iɱ.vənˈto]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [iɱ.venˈtoɾ]

Adjective

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

1. inventive

Noun

inventor m (plural inventors, feminine inventora)

1. inventor

Related terms

• invenció
• inventar

 

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, 2024
• “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.

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Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inventor, inventōrem.

Noun

1. inventor

Related terms

• inventar

Further reading

• “inventor”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

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Latin

Etymology

From inveniō +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /inˈu̯en.tor/, [ɪnˈu̯ɛn̪t̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈven.tor/, [iɱˈvɛn̪t̪or]

Noun

inventor m (genitive inventōris, feminine inventrīx); third declension

1. contriver, author, discoverer, inventor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	inventor	inventōrēs
Genitive	inventōris	inventōrum
Dative	inventōrī	inventōribus
Accusative	inventōrem	inventōrēs
Ablative	inventōre	inventōribus
Vocative	inventor	inventōrēs

Related terms

• inventio

Descendants

• Catalan: inventor
• English: inventor
• French: inventeur
  • → Romanian: inventor
• Galician: inventor
• Italian: inventore
• Portuguese: inventor
• Spanish: inventor

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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.
  • a legislator: legum scriptor, conditor, inventor
    

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inventor, inventōrem.

Noun

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

1. inventor (one who invents things)

Related terms

• invenção
• inventar

 

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Romanian

Etymology

From French inventeur.

Noun

inventor m (plural inventori)

1. (dated) inventor

Declension

Declension of inventor

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) inventor	inventorul	(niște) inventori	inventorii
genitive/dative	(unui) inventor	inventorului	(unor) inventori	inventorilor
vocative	inventorule		inventorilor

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inventor, inventōrem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /imbenˈtoɾ/ [ĩm.bẽn̪ˈt̪oɾ]

Noun

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

1. inventor (one who invents things)

Related terms

• invención
• inventar

 

Further reading

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