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English
Etymology
From French compositeur, from Latin compositor.
Pronunciation
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.
Translations
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin compositōrem.
Pronunciation
Noun
compositor m (plural compositors, feminine compositora)
- composer
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Galician
Etymology
From Latin compositor.
Noun
compositor m (plural compositores, feminine compositora, feminine plural compositoras)
- composer (one who composes music)
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Latin
Etymology
compositus, perfect passive participle of compōnō (“to arrange”) + -tor
Pronunciation
Noun
compositor m (genitive compositōris); third declension
- a maker, arranger, composer
Declension
Third-declension noun.
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Descendants
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
- 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)
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Spanish
Etymology
From Latin compositor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /komposiˈtoɾ/
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: com‧po‧si‧tor
Noun
compositor m (plural compositores, feminine compositora, feminine plural compositoras)
- composer
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