subeditor

English

Alternative forms

• sub-editor

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *upó

Proto-Italic *supo

Latin sub

Latin sub-der.

English sub-

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Latin ex-

Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-redup.

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti

Proto-Italic *didō

Latin dō

Latin ēdō

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Medieval Latin ēditorder.

English editor

English subeditor

From sub- + editor.

Noun

subeditor (plural subeditors)

1. An assistant editor, usually in a specific department of a newspaper.
2. (UK) A copy editor at a newspaper or magazine.
   • 1992, Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 96:

     Sub-editors. Bastards. What about all that copy of his they'd cut? Fifteen years of research he'd filed from one planet alone and they'd cut it to two words. ‘Mostly harmless.’

Derived terms

• stone subeditor
• subeditorship

Translations

an assistant editor, usually in a specific department of a newspaper

• Hungarian: segédszerkesztő (hu)
• Irish: fo-eagarthóir m
• Malay: سوبئيديتور
• Manx: fo-eagreyr m
• Polish: korektor (pl) m pers, korektorka (pl) f

copy editor — see copy editor

Further reading

• “subeditor”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “subeditor”, in Merriam-Webster Online, Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, Inc., 1996–present.
• “subeditor”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
• “subeditor”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.
• “subeditor” (US) / “subeditor” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.

Anagrams

• tobruised, tuberoids

Latin

Verb

subeditor

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /subediˈtoɾ/ [su.β̞e.ð̞iˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: su‧be‧di‧tor

Noun

subeditor m (plural subeditores, feminine subeditora, feminine plural subeditoras)

1. subeditor