compositor
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French compositeur, from Latin compositor.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]compositor (plural compositors)
- A person who sets type; a typesetter.
- 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
- Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
- 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter IV, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
- All Spaniards, we discovered, knew two English expressions. One was 'O.K., baby', the other was a word used by the Barcelona whores in their dealings with English sailors, and I am afraid the compositors would not print it.
- 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.
- One who, or that which, composes or sets in order.
- I work as an image compositor.
- (computer graphics) A system that puts images together in a buffer (such as individual windows on a desktop) to generate a final display image.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]typesetter — see typesetter
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin compositōrem.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Central) [kum.pu.ziˈto]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [kom.po.ziˈto]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [kom.po.ziˈtoɾ]
Noun
[edit]compositor m (plural compositors, feminine compositora)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “compositor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “compositor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “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.
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin compositor.
Noun
[edit]compositor m (plural compositores, feminine compositora, feminine plural compositoras)
- composer (one who composes music)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “compositor”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]compositus, perfect passive participle of compōnō (“to arrange”) + -tor
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /komˈpo.si.tor/, [kɔmˈpɔs̠ɪt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /komˈpo.si.tor/, [komˈpɔːs̬it̪or]
Noun
[edit]compositor m (genitive compositōris); third declension
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | compositor | compositōrēs |
genitive | compositōris | compositōrum |
dative | compositōrī | compositōribus |
accusative | compositōrem | compositōrēs |
ablative | compositōre | compositōribus |
vocative | compositor | compositōrēs |
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: compositor
- French: compositeur
- Galician: compositor
- Italian: compositore
- Portuguese: compositor
- Romanian: compozitor
- Spanish: compositor
References
[edit]- “compositor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “compositor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin compositōrem.
Pronunciation
[edit]
Noun
[edit]compositor m (plural compositores, feminine compositora, feminine plural compositoras)
- composer (one who composes; an author)
- composer (one who composes music)
- (music) songwriter
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “compositor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin compositor.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /komposiˈtoɾ/ [kõm.po.siˈt̪oɾ]
Audio (Spain): (file) - Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: com‧po‧si‧tor
Noun
[edit]compositor m (plural compositores, feminine compositora, feminine plural compositoras)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “compositor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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