inventor

See also: inventór

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inventor.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ɪnˈvɛntɚ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪnˈvɛntə/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)

Noun

inventor (plural inventors)

  1. One who invents, either as a hobby or as an occupation.

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inventor, inventōrem.

Pronunciation

Adjective

inventor (feminine inventora, masculine plural inventors, feminine plural inventores)

  1. inventive

Noun

inventor m (plural inventors, feminine inventora)

  1. inventor

Further reading


Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inventor, inventōrem.

Noun

inventor m (plural inventores, feminine inventora, feminine plural inventoras)

  1. inventor

Further reading


Latin

Etymology

From inveniō + -tor.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /inˈu̯en.tor/, [ɪnˈu̯ɛn̪t̪ɔr]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /inˈven.tor/, [iɱˈvɛn̪t̪or]

Noun

inventor m (genitive inventōris, feminine inventrīx); third declension

  1. contriver, author, discoverer, inventor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative inventor inventōrēs
Genitive inventōris inventōrum
Dative inventōrī inventōribus
Accusative inventōrem inventōrēs
Ablative inventōre inventōribus
Vocative inventor inventōrēs

Descendants

References

  • inventor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • inventor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • inventor 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)
  • inventor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • a legislator: legum scriptor, conditor, inventor

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inventōrem.

Noun

inventor m (plural inventores, feminine inventora, feminine plural inventoras)

  1. inventor (one who invents things)

Romanian

Etymology

From French inventeur.

Noun

inventor m (plural inventori)

  1. (dated) inventor

Declension


Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inventor, inventōrem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /imbenˈtoɾ/ [ĩm.bẽn̪ˈt̪oɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: in‧ven‧tor

Noun

inventor m (plural inventores, feminine inventora or inventriz, feminine plural inventoras or inventrices)

  1. inventor (one who invents things)

Further reading

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