auteur
French
noun
Definitions
- author
- composer, artist
- inventor (of discovery); perpetrator (of crime); leader (of rebellion etc.)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French autheur inherited from Old French autor borrowed from Latin auctor, auctorem.
Origin
Latin
auctor, auctorem
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- auteur English
- auteurial English
- auteurism English
- auteurist English
- auteurship English
- auxiliary English
- Augustus Latin
- Augustīnus Latin
- auctor Latin
- auctor, auctorem Latin
- auctoritas Latin
- auctorizare Latin
- auctorizo Latin
- auctoro Latin
- auctrix Latin
- auctōrizāre Latin
- auctōrizō, auctōrizāre Latin
- auctōrāre, auctōrō Latin
- augeō Latin
- augeō, augere Latin
- augmentum Latin
- augmentātiō Latin
- augustus Latin
- exauctōrāre Latin
- Autor German
- autore Italian
- auteur Dutch, Flemish
- coauteur French
- autor Spanish, Castilian
- αὐγή Ancient Greek
- αὐξάνειν Ancient Greek
- αὐξάνω Ancient Greek
- *h₂ewg- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂owg-éye-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂ógeh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *auk Proto-Germanic
- *aukaną Proto-Germanic
- *aukô Proto-Germanic
- *wahsijaną, *wahsaną Proto-Germanic
- eken Middle English
- nekename Middle English
- أوج Arabic
- autor Old French
- autor Catalan, Valencian
- autor Galician
- اوگ Persian
- awdur Welsh
- áugtor Old Irish
- auteu Norman
- Auteur Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- Auteursrecht Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- autheur Middle French
- 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌰𐌿𐌺𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- 𐌰𐌿𐌺𐌽𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- 𐌱𐌹𐌰𐌿𐌺𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- 𐌱𐌹𐌰𐌿𐌺𐌽𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- 𐌲𐌰𐌰𐌿𐌺𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- autor Old Portuguese
- *ouxselos Proto-Celtic
- autor Occitan
- аўтар Belarusian
- *augeō Proto-Italic
- autor Asturian
- augti Lithuanian
- aukštas Lithuanian
- autour xno
- *(h)aug- Proto-Albanian
- *augtei Proto-Balto-Slavic
- leistagst Mòcheno
- otè Haitian, Haitian Creole
- oter Mauritian Creole
- auk- Tocharian B
- oko Tocharian B
- autor Aragonese