compositor
English
Etymology
From French compositeur, from Latin compositor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kəmˈpɒzɪtə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
compositor (plural compositors)
- A person who sets type; a typesetter.
- 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
- Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
- 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter IV, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
- All Spaniards, we discovered, knew two English expressions. One was 'O.K., baby', the other was a word used by the Barcelona whores in their dealings with English sailors, and I am afraid the compositors would not print it.
- 1983, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge University Press, Second edition, 2005, p. 56:
- However late medieval copyists were supervised — and controls were much more lax than many accounts suggest — scribes were incapable of committing the sort of "standardized" error that was produced by a compositor who dropped the word "not" from the Seventh Commandment and thus created the "wicked" Bible of 1631.
- One who, or that which, composes or sets in order.
- I work as an image compositor.
- (computer graphics) A system that puts images together in a buffer (such as individual windows on a desktop) to generate a final display image.
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Translations
typesetter — see typesetter
Catalan
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin compositōrem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Northern) [kum.pu.ziˈtu]
- IPA(key): (Balearic, Northwestern) [kom.po.ziˈto]
- IPA(key): (Central) [kum.pu.ziˈto]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [kom.po.ziˈtoɾ]
Audio (Barcelona): (file)
Noun
compositor m (plural compositors, feminine compositora, feminine plural compositores)
Related terms
Further reading
- “compositor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “compositor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- “compositor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “compositor”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
Galician
Etymology
Etymology tree
From Latin compositor.
Noun
compositor m (plural compositores, feminine compositora, feminine plural compositoras)
- composer (one who composes music)
Related terms
Further reading
- “compositor”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
Latin
Etymology
compositus, perfect passive participle of compōnō (“to arrange”) + -tor
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔmˈpɔ.sɪ.tɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [komˈpɔː.s̬i.tor]
Noun
compositor m (genitive compositōris); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | compositor | compositōrēs |
| genitive | compositōris | compositōrum |
| dative | compositōrī | compositōribus |
| accusative | compositōrem | compositōrēs |
| ablative | compositōre | compositōribus |
| vocative | compositor | compositōrēs |
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Descendants
- → Catalan: compositor
- → French: compositeur
- → Galician: compositor
- → Italian: compositore
- → Portuguese: compositor
- → Romanian: compozitor
- → Russian: компози́тор (kompozítor)
- → Spanish: compositor
References
- “compositor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “compositor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Portuguese
Etymology
Etymology tree
Learned borrowing from Latin compositōrem.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /kõ.po.ziˈtoʁ/ [kõ.po.ziˈtoh]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /kõ.po.ziˈtoɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /kõ.po.ziˈtoʁ/ [kõ.po.ziˈtoχ]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /kõ.po.ziˈtoɻ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kõ.pu.ziˈtoɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /kõ.pu.ziˈto.ɾi/
- Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
- Hyphenation: com‧po‧si‧tor
Noun
compositor m (plural compositores, feminine compositora, feminine plural compositoras)
- composer (one who composes; an author)
- composer (one who composes music)
- (music) songwriter
Related terms
Further reading
- “compositor”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “compositor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
Etymology
Etymology tree
Learned borrowing from Latin compositor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /komposiˈtoɾ/ [kõm.po.siˈt̪oɾ]
Audio (Spain): (file) - Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: com‧po‧si‧tor
Noun
compositor m (plural compositores, feminine compositora, feminine plural compositoras)
Related terms
Further reading
- “compositor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026
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