auditor

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English

Alternative forms

• auditour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman auditour, from Latin audītor (“hearer, auditor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔːdɪtɚ/

Noun

auditor (plural auditors)

1. One who audits bookkeeping accounts.
2. In many jurisdictions, an elected or appointed public official in charge of the public accounts; a comptroller.
3. One who audits an academic course; who attends the lectures but does not earn academic credit.
4. (rare) One who listens, typically as a member of an audience.
5. (Scientology) One trained to perform spiritual guidance procedures.

Derived terms

Translations

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈau̯dɪtor]

Noun

auditor m anim (female equivalent auditorka)

1. auditor (one who audits bookkeeping accounts)

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

• “auditor”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “auditor”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “auditor”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995

Danish

Etymology

Doublet of auditør

Noun

auditor c (singular definite auditoren, plural indefinite auditorer)

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Declension

Further reading

• “auditor” in Den Danske Ordbog

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch auditor, from Latin audītor (“hearer, auditor”). Doublet of oditur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [au̯ˈd̪itɔr]
• Hyphenation: au‧di‧tor

Noun

auditor (plural auditor-auditor)

1. auditor:
   1. one who audits bookkeeping accounts
   2. in many jurisdictions, an elected or appointed public official in charge of the public accounts; a comptroller

Synonyms

• pengaudit
• juruaudit (Standard Malay)

Further reading

• “auditor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

From audiō (“hear, listen”) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [au̯ˈdiː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [au̯ˈd̪iː.t̪or]

Noun

audītor m (genitive audītōris); third declension

1. a hearer
2. an auditor
3. a pupil, disciple; a person who listens to teachings

   Synonym: discipulus

4. (by metonymy) a reader of a book (books were read aloud)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

Verb

audītor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of audiō

References

• “auditor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “auditor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "auditor", 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)
• auditor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• auditor in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin audītōrem. Doublet of ouvidor.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: au‧di‧tor

Noun

auditor m (plural auditores, feminine auditora, feminine plural auditoras)

1. auditor (one who audits bookkeeping accounts)

Related terms

• auditório

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French auditeur, from Latin auditor.

Adjective

auditor m or n (feminine singular auditoare, masculine plural auditori, feminine and neuter plural auditoare)

1. auditorial

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin audītōrem. Doublet of oidor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /audiˈtoɾ/ [au̯.ð̞iˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: au‧di‧tor

Noun

auditor m (plural auditores, feminine auditora, feminine plural auditoras)

1. auditor (one who audits bookkeeping accounts)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “auditor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10