creator

creator

See also: Creator

English

Alternative forms

• creatour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English creatour, from Old French creator, creatur, creatour, from Latin creātor, agent noun from perfect passive participle creātus (“created”), from verb creō (“I create”) + agent suffix -or. Mostly displaced native Old English wyrhta (modern English wright).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɹiˈeɪtɚ/

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɹiːˈeɪtə/
• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

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Noun

creator (plural creators, feminine creatress or creatrix)

1. Something or someone which creates or makes something.

   Kenneth E. Iverson was the creator of APL.

2. (social media) Ellipsis of content creator, someone who regularly produces and publishes content on social media, especially of a monetizable nature.

   Coordinate term: influencer

   creator economy

   • 2021 May 4, Taylor Lorenz, “Mr. Beast, YouTube Star, Wants to Take Over the Business World”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:

     People have viewed his videos more than 13 billion times. And last year as the pandemic raged, he became the most-subscribed YouTube creator in the country.

   • 2022 July 14, Rafqa Touma, “Melbourne woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent”, in The Guardian‎:

     The video shows TikTok creator Harrison Pawluk approaching the woman, Maree, in a public shopping centre.

3. (religion, sometimes capitalized) The deity that created the world.
4. (sports) A player who creates opportunities for their team to score goals; a playmaker.
   • 2019 July 3, Andrea Canales, Jonathan Tannenwald, “Pulisic, McKennie show plenty of promise for U.S. in Gold Cup”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer‎:

     Hernández is not a creator and suffered from a lack of service in previous seasons.

   • 2022 October 13, Richard Jolly, “Record-breaker Mohamed Salah delivers timely reminder of his greatest strength ahead of clash with champions”, in Independent.ie‎:

     There have been times this season when it seemed Liverpool were trying to reinvent Salah, the scorer supreme, as a creator and this was a sudden reminder of his greatest strength.

   • 2022 October 19, Andre Snellings, “Fantasy basketball: Why Jalen Brunson can be even better in New York”, in ESPN‎:

     As such, when Doncic was on the court, Brunson was a secondary facilitator and more of a finisher than a creator.

Usage notes

• Usually capitalized as Creator when referring to a specific deity.

Derived terms

• job creator

Related terms

• create
• creation
• creational
• creationary
• creative
• creatrix
• creature
• procreate
• recreate
• recreation

 

Translations

one who creates

Afrikaans: skepper (af) Arabic: مُبْدِع‎ m (mubdiʿ) Armenian: ստեղծող (stełcoł), արարիչ (araričʿ) Bulgarian: създа́тел (bg) m (sǎzdátel) Catalan: creador (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 創作者／创作者 (zh) (chuàngzuòzhě) Czech: tvůrce (cs) m, stvořitel m Danish: skaber c Dutch: maker (nl) m Egyptian: (jrw) Esperanto: kreinto Finnish: luoja (fi) French: créateur (fr) m, créatrice (fr) f Old French: creator m Galician: creador (gl) m German: Schöpfer (de) m, Schöpferin (de) f Greek: δημιουργός (el) m or f (dimiourgós) Ancient: κτίστης m (ktístēs) Hebrew: יוצר‎ (he) m (yotzer), יוצרת‎ f (yotzeret) (God or human being), בורא‎ m (bore') (who creates from nothing; God) Indonesian: kreator (id), pencipta (id) Italian: creatore (it) m, inventore (it) m, ideatore (it) m Japanese: 創造主 (そうぞうしゅ, sōzōshu), 創造者 (そうぞうしゃ, sōzōsha), クリエイター (kurieitā), 創作者 (そうさくしゃ, sōsakusha) Korean: 창조자(創造者) (ko) (changjoja) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: دروستکار‎ (drustkar) Northern Kurdish: afirîner (ku), çêker (ku) Latin: creātor m, conditor m Lithuanian: kūrėjas m, kūrėja f Malayalam: സ്രഷ്ടാവ് (ml) (sraṣṭāvŭ) Maori: kaihanga, kaiwaihanga (mi), kaiwhaihanga Norwegian: Bokmål: skaper m, opphavsperson m Nynorsk: skapar m, opphavsperson m Old English: wyrhta m Old Occitan: creator Persian: آفریننده‎ (fa) (âfarinande) Plautdietsch: Schepfa m Polish: twórca (pl) m, twórczyni (pl) f Portuguese: criador (pt) m Russian: созда́тель (ru) m (sozdátelʹ), созда́тельница (ru) f (sozdátelʹnica), творе́ц (ru) m (tvoréc) Sanskrit: कर्तृ (sa) m or f or n (kartṛ) Scots: makar Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: творац, створитељ, стваралац, ствараоц, стваратељ m, стваратељица f Roman: tvorac (sh), stvoritelj (sh), stvaralac (sh), stvaraoc, stvaratelj (sh) m, stvarateljica (sh) f Shor: пӱдӱрчи (püdürçi) Spanish: creador (es) m Swedish: skapare (sv) Ukrainian: творе́ць (uk) m (tvorécʹ) Vietnamese: người sáng tạo Volapük: jafan (vo) m or f, hijafan m, jijafan f, (older term) jafel m or f Welsh: crëwr (cy) Yiddish: באַשעפֿער‎ m (bashefer), באַשאַפֿער‎ m (bashafer) Zulu: umenzi class 1/2

one who regularly produces and publishes content on social media — See also translations at content creator

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the deity that created the world

Afrikaans: skepper (af) Arabic: خَالِق‎ m (ḵāliq) Chinese: Mandarin: 造物主 (zh) (zàowùzhǔ) Dutch: schepper (nl) m Finnish: Luoja (fi), luoja (fi) French: créateur (fr) m German: Schöpfer (de) m, Schöpfergott (de) m, Weltschöpfer m Greek: Ancient: κτίστης m (ktístēs) Italian: creatore (it) Japanese: 造物主 (ぞうぶつしゅ, zōbutsushu), 作り主 (tsukurinushi) Kapampangan: Talalalang Kazakh: пәруардігер (päruardıger) Korean: 조물주(造物主) (ko) (jomulju) Malayalam: സ്രഷ്ടാവ് (ml) (sraṣṭāvŭ) Persian: خالق‎ (fa) (xâleq), آفریدگار‎ (fa) (âfaridegâr), کروگر‎ (karugar) Old English: Sċieppend m Portuguese: {t+|pt|criador|alt=Criador|m}} Russian: созда́тель (ru) m (sozdátelʹ), творе́ц (ru) m (tvoréc) Shor: пӱдӱрчи (püdürçi) Swedish: skapare (sv) c Tagalog: Tagapaglikha, Tagapaglalang Ukrainian: творе́ць (uk) m (tvorécʹ) Vietnamese: tạo vật chủ (造物主), tạo hoá (vi) Volapük: Jafal (vo), Lemekal (vo) Yiddish: בורא‎ m (boyre)

See also

• maker

Anagrams

• Carreto, Cerrato, acroter, reactor

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Latin

Etymology

From creō (“I create, make”) + -ātor. Compare Sanskrit कर्तृ (kartṛ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kreˈaː.tor/, [kreˈäːt̪ɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kreˈa.tor/, [kreˈäːt̪or]

Noun

creātor m (genitive creātōris, feminine creātrīx); third declension

1. a creator, author, founder

   Synonyms: conditor, auctor

2. a person who elects or appoints to an office
3. the creator of the world; God

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	creātor	creātōrēs
Genitive	creātōris	creātōrum
Dative	creātōrī	creātōribus
Accusative	creātōrem	creātōrēs
Ablative	creātōre	creātōribus
Vocative	creātor	creātōrēs

Derived terms

• creātrīx

Related terms

• creābilis
• creāmen
• creātiō
• creātūra

Descendants

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: criador
  • Asturian: criador
  • Extremaduran: criaor
  • Galician: criador
  • Portuguese: criador
  • Spanish: criador
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: creatore
  • Sicilian: criaturi
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: criador
  • Old Franco-Provençal: creares (nominative)
  • Old French: criere (nominative)
  • Old Occitan: creador
• Borrowed:
  • >? Albanian: krijues
  • → Aragonese: creyador
  • → Asturian: creador
  • → Catalan: creador
  • → Corsican: creatore
  • → English: creator
  • → French: créateur
    • → German: Kreateur
    • → Romanian: creator
  • → German: Kreator
  • → Leonese: creyador
  • → Spanish: creador

Verb

creātor

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

References

• “creator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “creator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• creator 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)
• creator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) God is the Creator of the world: deus est mundi procreator (not creator), aedificator, fabricator, opifex rerum
    
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “creator”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 1297

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Old French

Noun

creator m (oblique plural creators, nominative singular creators, nominative plural creator)

1. Alternative form of creatur

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Romanian

Etymology

From French créateur, from Latin creātor. Equivalent to crea +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kre.aˈtor/

Adjective

creator m or n (feminine singular creatoare, masculine plural creatori, feminine and neuter plural creatoare)

1. creative

Declension

Declension of creator

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	creator		creatoare	creatori	creatoare
	definite	creatorul		creatoarea	creatorii	creatoarele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	creator		creatoare	creatori	creatoare
	definite	creatorului		creatoarei	creatorilor	creatoarelor

Noun

creator m (plural creatori)

1. creator (person who creates, who founds something)
2. (religion) God

Declension

Declension of creator

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) creator	creatorul	(niște) creatori	creatorii
genitive/dative	(unui) creator	creatorului	(unor) creatori	creatorilor
vocative	creatorule		creatorilor

Further reading

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