compositor
English
Etymology
From French compositeur, from Latin compositor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kəmˈpɒzɪtə(ɹ)/
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 16832619:
- 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, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 4, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg:
- 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.
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- 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.
Translations
typesetter — see typesetter
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin compositor.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /kom.po.ziˈto/
- (Central) IPA(key): /kum.pu.ziˈto/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /kom.po.ziˈtoɾ/
Noun
compositor m (plural compositors, feminine compositora)
- composer
Related terms
- compondre
Further reading
- “compositor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “compositor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “compositor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “compositor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Latin
Etymology
compositus, perfect passive participle of compōnō (“to arrange”) + -tor
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /komˈpo.si.tor/, [kɔmˈpɔs̠ɪt̪ɔr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /komˈpo.si.tor/, [komˈpɔːs̬it̪or]
Noun
compositor m (genitive compositōris); third declension
- a maker, arranger, composer
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | compositor | compositōrēs |
| Genitive | compositōris | compositōrum |
| Dative | compositōrī | compositōribus |
| Accusative | compositōrem | compositōrēs |
| Ablative | compositōre | compositōribus |
| Vocative | compositor | compositōrēs |
Related terms
- compositiō
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
Borrowed 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]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kõ.po.ziˈtoɻ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kõ.pu.ziˈtoɾ/
- Rhymes: -oɾ, -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)
Related terms
- compor
Further reading
- “compositor” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Etymology
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)
- composer
Related terms
- componer
Further reading
- “compositor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014