auditor

• auditour (obsolete)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔːdɪtə(ɹ)/

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auditor (plural auditors, feminine auditress)

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.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203:

     There is another of better notice, and whispered through the world with some attention; credulous and vulgar auditors readily believing it, and more judicious and distinctive heads not altogether rejecting it.

   • 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds

     Sampson's tongue was still flying with rapidity, as if his auditors had not been void of a number, while Mr. Alboni and Natalie were holding a consultation aside.

   • 1913, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt‎:

     As we crossed the hall the telephone-bell rang, and we were the involuntary auditors of Professor Challenger's end of the ensuing dialogue.

5. (Scientology) One trained to perform spiritual guidance procedures.

• frauditor
• tax auditor

auditor m

1. auditor (one who audits bookkeeping accounts)

• audit

• auditor in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• auditor in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• auditor in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Doublet of auditør

auditor c (singular definite auditoren, plural indefinite auditorer)

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• “auditor” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

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

auditor (first-person possessive auditorku, second-person possessive auditormu, third-person possessive auditornya)

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

• pengaudit

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

From audiō (“hear, listen”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈdiː.tor/, [äu̯ˈd̪iːt̪ɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈdi.tor/, [äu̯ˈd̪iːt̪or]

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)

Third-declension noun.

audītor

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

• “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to attend Plato's lectures: audire Platonem, auditorem esse Platonis
    
• auditor in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Learned borrowing from Latin audītōrem. Doublet of ouvidor.

• Hyphenation: au‧di‧tor

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

1. auditor (one who audits bookkeeping accounts)

• auditório

From French auditeur, from Latin auditor.

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

1. auditorial

Borrowed from Latin audītor, audītōrem. Doublet of oidor.

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

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

1. auditor (one who audits bookkeeping accounts)

• auditoría

• “auditor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014