compositor

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English

Noun

compositor (plural compositors)

  1. A person who sets type; a typesetter.
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    • 1938, George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, Chapter 4, [1]
      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.
  2. One who, or that which, composes or sets in order.
    I work as an image compositor.

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin compositor.

Pronunciation

Noun

compositor m (plural compositors, feminine compositora)

  1. composer

Further reading

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin compositor.

Pronunciation

Noun

compositor m (plural compositores, feminine compositora, feminine plural compositoras)

  1. composer (one who composes; an author)
  2. composer (one who composes music)

Further reading

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin compositor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /komposiˈtoɾ/ [kõm.po.siˈt̪oɾ]

Noun

compositor m (plural compositores, feminine compositora, feminine plural compositoras)

  1. composer

Further reading

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