auctor

Latin

Alternative forms

• autor, author (considered to be incorrect, but do at least occur in older New Latin)

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

augeō (“to increase, nourish”) +‎ -tor

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯k.tor/, [ˈäu̯kt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯k.tor/, [ˈäu̯kt̪or]

Noun

auctor m (genitive auctōris); third declension

1. (also Medieval Latin) one who gives increase (hence: an originator, causer, doer, founder)
   1. seller, vendor
   2. author
   3. (figuratively) authorship, agency, encouragement
   4. (poetic) the Creator, God

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	auctor	auctōrēs
Genitive	auctōris	auctōrum
Dative	auctōrī	auctōribus
Accusative	auctōrem	auctōrēs
Ablative	auctōre	auctōribus
Vocative	auctor	auctōrēs

Derived terms

• auctōritās
• auctorizō
• auctor vītae
• auctrīx

Descendants

• German: Auctor, Autor, Author
• Irish: ughdar, údar
• Italian: autore
• Norman: auteu

• Old French: autor
  • English: author
  • Middle French: aucteur, auteur, autheur
    • French: auteur
• Spanish: autor

References

• “auctor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “auctor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• auctor 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)
• auctor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to have as authority for a thing: auctore aliquo uti ad aliquid
    
  • an historian: rerum auctor (as authority)
    
  • the writer, author: scriptor (not auctor = guarantor)
    
  • (ambiguous) to give a person advice: auctorem esse alicui, ut
    
  • (ambiguous) to have as authority for a thing: auctorem aliquem habere alicuius rei
    
  • (ambiguous) the book is attributed to an unknown writer: liber refertur ad nescio quem auctorem
    
  • (ambiguous) statesmen: auctores consilii publici
    
• “auctor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• auctor in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “auctor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Middle English

Noun

auctor

1. Alternative form of auctour

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Portuguese

Noun

auctor m (plural es, feminine auctora, feminine plural auctoras)

1. Obsolete spelling of autor.