censor

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English

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Alternative forms

Etymology

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(deprecated template usage) From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin cēnsor (“magistrate, critic”), from censere (“to tax, assess, value, judge, consider, etc.”), from Proto-Italic *kensēō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱn̥s-é-ti, *ḱn̥s-eyé-ti, from *ḱens- (“to announce”). Cognate with Sanskrit शंसति (śáṃsati, “to declare”), Proto-Iranian *cánhati.

Pronunciation

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  • Homophones: censer, sensor
  • Rhymes: -ɛnsə(ɹ)

Noun

censor (plural censors)

  1. (history) A Roman magistrate, originally a census administrator, by Classical times a high judge of public behavior and morality.
    The Ancient censors were part of the cursus honorum, a series of public offices held during a political career, like consuls and praetors.
  2. An official responsible for the removal of objectionable or sensitive content.
    The headmaster was an even stricter censor of his boarding pupils' correspondence than the enemy censors had been of his own when the country was occupied.
  3. One who censures or condemns.
  4. (psychology) A hypothetical subconscious agency which filters unacceptable thought before it reaches the conscious.

Synonyms

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Translations

official responsible for removal of objectionable or sensitive content
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Verb

censor (third-person singular simple present censors, present participle censoring, simple past and past participle censored)

  1. (transitive) To review in order to remove objectionable content from correspondence or public media, either by legal criteria or with discretionary powers.
    The man responsible for censoring films has seen some things in his time.
  2. (transitive) To remove objectionable content.
    Occupying powers typically censor anything reeking of resistance

Synonyms

Translations

to review in order to remove objectionable content
to remove objectionable content
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See also

Further reading

Anagrams

Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

censor m (plural censors, feminine censora)

  1. censor

Further reading

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin censor.

Pronunciation

Noun

censor m (plural censors, diminutive censortje n)

  1. censor

Latin

Etymology

From cēnseō (“I assess, value, judge, tax, etc.”) +‎ -tor (agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

cēnsor m (genitive cēnsōris); third declension

  1. censor
  2. provincial magistrate with similar duties.
  3. a critic, especially a severe one of morals and society

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cēnsor cēnsōrēs
Genitive cēnsōris cēnsōrum
Dative cēnsōrī cēnsōribus
Accusative cēnsōrem cēnsōrēs
Ablative cēnsōre cēnsōribus
Vocative cēnsor cēnsōrēs

Descendants

  • Catalan: censor
  • English: censor
  • French: censeur
  • German: Zensor
  • Italian: censore

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References

  • “censor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “censor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • censor 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)
  • censor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the censors hold a census of the people: censores censent populum
  • “censor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “censor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Old Latin

Noun

censōr m

  1. censor

Declension

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Descendants

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin censor, censoris.

Adjective

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  1. censoring

Synonyms

Noun

censor m (plural censores, feminine censora, feminine plural censoras)

  1. (historical) censor (Roman magistrate)
  2. censor (official responsible for removal of objectionable or sensitive content)
  3. censor, censurer (one who censures or condemns)

Synonyms

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin censor, censoris.

Adjective

censor (feminine censora, masculine plural censores, feminine plural censoras)

  1. censoring

Synonyms

Noun

censor m (plural censores, feminine censora, feminine plural censoras)

  1. (historical) censor (Roman magistrate)
  2. censor, censurer (one who censures or condemns)
  3. censor (a census administrator)

Synonyms

Further reading

Swedish

Noun

censor c

  1. (classical studies) censor; a Roman census administrator
  2. censor; an official responsible for the removal of objectionable or sensitive content

Declension

Declension of censor 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative censor censorn censorer censorerna
Genitive censors censorns censorers censorernas

See also

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