Masculine

autor

  1. (masculine) author (originator or creator of a work)
  2. (masculine) author (someone who writes books for a living)
  3. (broadly, masculine) causer; originator; instigator
  4. (masculine) perpetrator

Frequency

C1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/awˈtoʁ/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese autor, from Latin auctor, from Proto-Italic *auktōr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg-, from *h₂weg-. Doublet of auteur.

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