compositor
English
Noun
compositor (plural compositors)
- 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.
- One who, or that which, composes or sets in order.
- I work as an image compositor.
Translations
typesetter — see typesetter
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin compositor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central) [kum.pu.ziˈto]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [kom.po.ziˈto]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [kom.po.ziˈtoɾ]
Noun
compositor m (plural compositors, feminine compositora)
Related terms
Further reading
- “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.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin compositor.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -oɾ
Noun
compositor m (plural compositores, feminine compositora, feminine plural compositoras)
Related terms
Further reading
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin compositor.
Pronunciation
Noun
compositor m (plural compositores, feminine compositora, feminine plural compositoras)
Related terms
Further reading
- “compositor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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