editor

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English

Alternative forms

• ed., edit. (abbreviations)
• Ed. (titular abbreviation)
• editour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

From Medieval Latin ēditor, from Late Latin ēditor, from ēditus, perfect passive participle of ēdō (“give out, put forth, publish”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛd.ɪ.tə/
• (General American)
  • (formal) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ɾɪ.tɚ/, [ˈɛˑ.ɾɪ.tɚ]
  • (lax) IPA^(key): [ˈɛˑ.ɾɪ.ɾɚ]
• Hyphenation: ed‧i‧tor

Noun

editor (plural editors)

1. A person who edits or makes changes to documents.
2. A copy editor.
3. A person who edited a specific document.

4. A person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or decides which ones to publish.

5. A machine used for editing (cutting and splicing) movie film
6. (computing) A program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files.

   Hyponym: text editor

7. (television, cinematography) Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.

Derived terms

Translations

References

Anagrams

• doiter, dotier, rioted, tie rod, tierod, triode

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēditōrem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.ðiˈto]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [e.ðiˈtoɾ]

Adjective

editor (feminine editora, masculine plural editors, feminine plural editores)

1. editing

Noun

editor m (plural editors, feminine editora)

1. (graphic arts, publishing, computing) editor

Related terms

• editar
• editorial

Further reading

• “editor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛdɪtor]

Noun

editor m anim

1. editor (person who edits, e.g. a magazine)

   Synonym: redaktor

Declension

Noun

editor m inan

1. editor (computer program for entering text)

Declension

Danish

Noun

editor c (singular definite editoren, plural indefinite editorer)

1. editor

Declension

Further reading

• “editor” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English editor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛdɪtɔr/
• Hyphenation: edi‧tor

Noun

editor m (plural editors, diminutive editortje n)

1. editor (computer program to edit text documents)

Galician

Etymology

From Latin ēditor.

Noun

editor m (plural editores, feminine editora, feminine plural editoras)

1. editor

Related terms

• editar
• editorial

Further reading

• “editor”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Indonesian

Etymology

From English editor, from Medieval Latin ēditor, from Late Latin ēditor, from ēditus, perfect passive participle of ēdō (“give out, put forth, publish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛditɔr/
• Hyphenation: èdi‧tor
• Rhymes: -ɔr

Noun

èditor (first-person possessive editorku, second-person possessive editormu, third-person possessive editornya)

1. editor:
   1. a person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or decides which ones to publish.

      Synonyms: pengedit, penyunting, redaktur

   2. (computing) a program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files.

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “editor” 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 1

From ēdō +‎ -tor.

Noun

ēditor m (genitive ēditōris); third declension

1. (Late Latin) editor, publisher

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

Etymology 2

From edō (“I eat”).

Verb

editor

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

Etymology 3

From ēdō (“to give out”).

Verb

ēditor

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

References

• “editor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• editor 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)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēditor.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: e‧di‧tor

Noun

editor m (plural editores, feminine editora, feminine plural editoras)

1. editor (person who edits)
2. publisher (person who publishes printed media)

Noun

editor m (plural editores)

1. (computer software) editor (program for modifying files, especially text files)

Derived terms

• editorar
• editoria

Related terms

• editar
• editora
• editorial

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French éditeur.

Noun

editor m (plural editori)

1. editor

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ēditor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ediˈtoɾ/ [e.ð̞iˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: e‧di‧tor

Noun

editor m (plural editores, feminine editora, feminine plural editoras)

1. editor

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “editor”, 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