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单词 actor
释义

actor

English

Alternative forms

  • acter (uncommon)
  • actour (obsolete)

Etymology

Middle English actour, from Anglo-Norman actor, Middle French actor, and their source, Latin āctor (“doer”), from agō (“to do”). Equivalent to act +‎ -or. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄκτωρ (áktōr, “leader”), from ἄγω (ágō, “lead, carry, convey, bring”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈak.tə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈæk.tɚ/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Audio (UK)(file)
  • Homophone: acter
  • Rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)

Noun

actor (plural actors, feminine actress, or (nonstandard) actoress)

  1. (obsolete, law) Someone who institutes a legal suit; a plaintiff or complainant. [13th–19th c.]
  2. (obsolete) Someone acting on behalf of someone else; a guardian. [14th–18th c.]
  3. Someone or something that takes part in some action; a doer, an agent. [from 15th c.]
    • 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview 2001, p. 373:
      Never, my dear Bethel, did the most feverish dreams of fiction produce scenes more painful, or more terrific, than the real events to which I have been an actor, since the date of my last letter.
  4. A person who acts a part in a theatrical play or (later) in film or television; a dramatic performer. [from 16th c.]
    • 1991, Ani DiFranco (lyrics and music), “Anticipate”, in Not So Soft:
      Seems like everyone's an actor / Or they're an actor's best friend / I wonder what was wrong to begin with / That they should all have to pretend
    • 2017 April 2, “Marijuana”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 7, HBO:
      Exactly. Marijuana is something we just all gradually decided is okay, like Mark Wahlberg as a serious actor. “You know what? Sure, I’ve decided I’m fine with that.”
    • 2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 88:
      "I'm an actress -- actor, as we have to say these days."
  5. (obsolete, Ancient Rome) An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes. [16th–19th c.]
  6. (grammar) The subject performing the action of a verb. [from 18th c.]
  7. (software engineering) The entity that performs a role (in use case analysis).

Usage notes

  • In the sense of a person who acts in a play or film, the traditional sense of the word only applied to male actors, the term actress being used for the female counterpart.

Synonyms

  • (person who performs in a theatrical play or film): performer, player
  • (one who acts): doer
  • (one who takes part): participant
  • (a plaintiff): complainant, plaintiff
  • (entity performing a role in use case analysis): role

Antonyms

  • (grammatical role): undergoer

Hyponyms

  • (person who performs in a theatrical play or film): actress
  • enactor
  • reenactor

Derived terms

  • actor-proof
  • bad actor
  • character actor
  • crisis actor
  • method actor
  • nonstate actor
  • non state actor, non-state actor
  • play-actor
  • spect-actor
  • straight actor
  • supporting actor
  • threat actor
  • voice actor
  • act
  • acting
  • action
  • actress
  • actrix
  • actual
  • transaction

Descendants

  • → Scottish Gaelic: actair
  • → Welsh: actor

Translations

person who performs in a theatrical play or film — See also translations at actress
plaintiff — see plaintiff
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Further reading

  • actor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • actor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
  • actor at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

  • Cator, Croat, Croat., carto-, rocta, taroc

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin āctor.

Noun

actor m (plural actores)

  1. An actor.
  • actriz

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin āctor.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /əkˈto/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /akˈtoɾ/

Noun

actor m (plural actors, feminine actriu)

  1. An actor.
  • actuar

Further reading

  • “actor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin āctor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑk.tɔr/
  • Hyphenation: ac‧tor
  • Rhymes: -ɑktɔr

Noun

actor m (plural actores or actoren, diminutive actortje n)

  1. An actor; an agent, a player, who has a part in some field of economical, social or other action, i.e. an active human factor.
  • acteur
  • actie
  • activiteit
  • agenda
  • agens
  • ageren
  • agitatie
  • agitator
  • reactor

Galician

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /akˈtoɾ/

Noun

actor m (plural actores, feminine actriz, feminine plural actrices)

  1. actor
    A acción revela o actor.
    The act reveals the actor

Further reading

  • “actor” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Latin

Etymology

Agent noun formed from āctus +‎ -tor, perfect passive participle of agō (“do, act, make”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈaːk.tor/, [ˈäːkt̪ɔr]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈak.tor/, [ˈäkt̪or]

Noun

āctor m (genitive āctōris, feminine āctrīx); third declension

  1. a doer, an agent
  2. An actor (person who performs in a theatrical play or movie).
  3. A (law) prosecutor, plaintiff, advocate, orator.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeāctorāctōrēs
Genitiveāctōrisāctōrum
Dativeāctōrīāctōribus
Accusativeāctōremāctōrēs
Ablativeāctōreāctōribus
Vocativeāctorāctōrēs
  • āctiō
  • āctrīx
  • āctus
  • agitō

Descendants

  • → Asturian: actor
  • → Catalan: actor
  • → Middle English: actour
    • English: actor
      • → Scottish Gaelic: actair
      • → Welsh: actor
  • → Galician: actor
  • → Italian: attore
  • → Middle French: acteur
    • → Dutch: acteur
      • Afrikaans: akteur
      • → Indonesian: aktor
    • French: acteur
      • → Norman: acteur
      • → Norwegian: aktør
      • → Russian: актёр (aktjór)
        • → Azerbaijani: aktyor
        • → Uzbek: aktyor
      • → Swedish: aktör
      • → Turkish: aktör
  • → Occitan: actor
  • → Persian: بازیگر‎
  • → Polish: aktor
  • → Portuguese: ator
  • → Romanian: actor
  • → Spanish: actor

References

  • “actor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “actor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • actor 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)
  • actor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the actor who plays the leading part: actor primarum (secundarum, tertiarum) partium
  • “actor”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
  • “actor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “actor”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • “actor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Middle English

Noun

actor

  1. Alternative form of actour

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin āctor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /atˈtu/
  • Audio (Béarn)(file)

Noun

actor m (plural actors, feminine actritz, feminine plural actrises)

  1. An actor.

Portuguese

Noun

actor m (plural actores)

  1. Superseded spelling of ator. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)

Romanian

Alternative forms

  • aftor (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from French acteur, Latin āctor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /akˈtor/

Noun

actor m (plural actori, feminine equivalent actriță)

  1. (acting) An actor.

Declension

Declension of actor
singularplural
indefinite articulationdefinite articulationindefinite articulationdefinite articulation
nominative/accusative(un) actoractorul(niște) actoriactorii
genitive/dative(unui) actoractorului(unor) actoriactorilor
vocativeactoruleactorilor

Synonyms

  • artist, interpret

Derived terms

  • actoraș
  • actoricesc
  • actorie

See also

  • teatralist

References

  • actor in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Scots

Etymology

From English actor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaktər/

Noun

actor (plural actors)

  1. An actor.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin actor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aɡˈtoɾ/ [aɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
  • (Colombia)
    Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: ac‧tor

Noun

actor m (plural actores, feminine actriz, feminine plural actrices)

  1. actor (person who performs in a theatrical play or movie)

Derived terms

  • actor de doblaje
  • actor de voz
  • actor porno
  • acción
  • acto
  • actoral
  • actuar

Noun

actor m (plural actores, feminine actora, feminine plural actoras)

  1. (law) defendant

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • corta
  • tocar

Welsh

Etymology

From English actor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaktɔr/

Noun

actor m (plural actorion)

  1. An actor.

Coordinate terms

  • actores (“actress”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalh-prothesis
actorunchangedunchangedhactor
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “actor”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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