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English
Alternative forms
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
Noun
creator (plural creators, feminine creatress or creatrix)
- Something or someone which creates or makes something.
Kenneth E. Iverson was the creator of APL.
- (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: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.
- (religion, sometimes capitalized) The deity that created the world.
- (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.
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Translations
one who creates
- Afrikaans: skepper (af)
- Albanian: krijues (sq) m
- Arabic: مُبْدِع m (mubdiʕ)
- Armenian: ստեղծող (steġcoġ), արարիչ (araričʻ)
- Azerbaijani: yaradan (az), yaradıcı
- Belarusian: ствара́льнік m (stvarálʹnik), ствара́льніца f (stvarálʹnica), тварэ́ц m (tvaréc)
- Bulgarian: създа́тел (bg) m (sǎzdátel), създа́телка f (sǎzdátelka), творе́ц (bg) m (tvoréc)
- Catalan: creador (ca) m, creadora (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 創作者/创作者 (zh) (chuàngzuòzhě)
- Czech: tvůrce (cs) m, tvůrkyně (cs) f, stvořitel m, stvořitelka f
- Danish: skaber c
- Dutch: maker (nl) m, maakster (nl) f, schepper (nl) m, schepster f
- Egyptian: (jrw)
- Esperanto: kreinto, kreintino (female)
- Estonian: looja (et)
- Finnish: luoja (fi)
- French: créateur (fr) m, créatrice (fr) f
- Old French: creator m
- Galician: creador (gl) m, creadora f
- Georgian: შემქმნელი (šemkmneli)
- German: Schöpfer (de) m, Schöpferin (de) f, Erschaffer m, Erschafferin f
- Greek: δημιουργός (el) m or f (dimiourgós)
- Ancient: κτίστης m (ktístēs)
- Hebrew: יוצר \ יוֹצֵר (he) m (yotsér), יוֹצֶרֶת \ יוֹצֶרֶת f (yotséret) (God or a human being), בורא \ בּוֹרֵא m (boré) (who creates from nothing; God)
- Hindi: निर्माता (hi) m (nirmātā), विधाता (hi) m (vidhātā)
- Hungarian: teremtő (hu), alkotó (hu)
- Indonesian: kreator (id), pencipta (id)
- Italian: creatore (it) m, creatrice f, inventore (it) m, inventrice f, ideatore (it) m, ideatrice (it) f
- Japanese: 創造主 (そうぞうしゅ, sōzōshu), 創造者 (ja) (そうぞうしゃ, sōzōsha), クリエイター (ja) (kurieitā), 創作者 (そうさくしゃ, sōsakusha)
- Kazakh: жасаушы (jasauşy)
- Korean: 창조자(創造者) (ko) (changjoja)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: دروستکار (drustkar)
- Northern Kurdish: afirîner (ku), çêker (ku)
- Kyrgyz: жасоочу (ky) (jasoocu)
- Lao: ຜູ້ສ້າງ (phū sāng)
- Latin: creātor m, creātrīx f, conditor m, conditrīx f
- Latvian: radītājs m
- Lithuanian: kūrėjas m, kūrėja f
- Macedonian: творец m (tvorec), создател m (sozdatel), создателка f (sozdatelka)
- Malayalam: സ്രഷ്ടാവ് (ml) (sraṣṭāvŭ)
- Maori: kaihanga, kaiwaihanga (mi), kaiwhaihanga
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: бүтээгч (mn) (büteegč)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: skaper m, opphavsperson m
- Nynorsk: skapar m, opphavsperson m
- Old English: wyrhta m, wyrhte f
- Old Occitan: creator
- Persian: آفَرینَندِه (fa) (âfarinande), سازَندِه (fa) (sâzande)
- Plautdietsch: Schepfa m
- Polish: twórca (pl) m, twórczyni (pl) f
- Portuguese: criador (pt) m, criadora (pt) f
- Romanian: creator (ro) m, creatoare (ro) f
- 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: тво́рац m, ство̀ритељ m, ства̀ралац m, ствараоц m, ства̀ратељ m, стваратѐљица f
- Roman: tvórac (sh) m, stvòritelj (sh) m, stvàralac (sh) m, stvaraoc m, stvàratelj (sh) m, stvaratèljica (sh) f
- Shor: пӱдӱрчи (püdürçi)
- Slovak: tvorca m, tvorkyňa f, stvoriteľ m, stvoriteľka f
- Slovene: ustvarjalec m, ustvarjalka f
- Spanish: creador (es) m, creadora (es) f
- Swedish: skapare (sv) c, skaperska c (female)
- Tajik: офаринанда (ofarinanda), созанда (sozanda)
- Thai: ผู้สร้าง (pûu-sâang)
- Turkish: yaratıcı (tr)
- Ukrainian: творе́ць (uk) m (tvorécʹ), ство́рювач m (stvórjuvač), ство́рювачка f (stvórjuvačka)
- Uyghur: ياراتقۇچى (yaratquchi)
- Uzbek: yaratuvchi (uz), ijodkor (uz)
- Vietnamese: người sáng tạo
- Volapük: jafan (vo), hijafan (male), jijafan f (female), jafel (older term)
- Welsh: crëwr (cy) m
- Yiddish: באַשעפֿער m (bashefer), באַשאַפֿער m (bashafer)
- Zulu: umenzi class 1/2
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one who regularly produces and publishes content on social media
— see also content creator
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- German: Kreateur m, Kreateurin f, Ersteller m, Erstellerin f, Verfasser (de) m, Verfasserin (de) f, Urheber (de) m, Urheberin (de) f, Autor (de) m, Autorin (de) f
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the deity that created the world
- Afrikaans: skepper (af)
- Arabic: خَالِق m (ḵāliq)
- Belarusian: тварэ́ц m (tvaréc)
- Bulgarian: създа́тел (bg) m (sǎzdátel), творе́ц (bg) m (tvoréc)
- 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
- Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐍀𐍃 m (skaps)
- Greek:
- Ancient: κτίστης m (ktístēs)
- Italian: creatore (it)
- Japanese: 造物主 (ja) (ぞうぶつしゅ, zōbutsushu), 作り主 (つくりぬし, tsukurinushi)
- Kapampangan: Talalalang
- Kazakh: пәруардігер (päruardıger)
- Korean: 조물주(造物主) (ko) (jomulju)
- Malayalam: സ്രഷ്ടാവ് (ml) (sraṣṭāvŭ)
- Old English: Sċieppend m
- Pashto: خالق (ps) m (xāleq)
- Persian: خالِق (fa) (xâleq), آفَریدِگار (fa) (âfaridegâr), کَروگَر (karugar)
- Portuguese: Criador (pt) m
- Russian: созда́тель (ru) m (sozdátelʹ), творе́ц (ru) m (tvoréc)
- Shor: пӱдӱрчи (püdürçi)
- Slovene: stvarnik m
- Swedish: skapare (sv) c
- Tagalog: Tagapaglikha, Tagapaglalang
- Tajik: холиқ (xoliq), офаридгор (ofaridgor)
- Ukrainian: творе́ць (uk) m (tvorécʹ), твори́тель m (tvorýtelʹ)
- Urdu: خالِق m (xāliq)
- Vietnamese: tạo vật chủ (造物主), tạo hoá (vi)
- Volapük: Jafal (vo), Lemekal (vo)
- Yiddish: בורא m (boyre)
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Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From creō (“I create, make”) + -tor. Compare Sanskrit कर्तृ (kartṛ).
Pronunciation
Noun
creātor m (genitive creātōris, feminine creātrīx); third declension
- a creator, author, founder
- Synonyms: conditor, auctor
- a person who elects or appoints to an office
- the creator of the world; God
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Ibero-Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Borrowed:
Verb
creātor
- 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
Old French
Noun
creator oblique singular, m (oblique plural creators, nominative singular creators, nominative plural creator)
- Alternative form of creatur
Romanian
Etymology
From French créateur, from Latin creātor. Equivalent to crea + -tor.
Pronunciation
Adjective
creator m or n (feminine singular creatoare, masculine plural creatori, feminine and neuter plural creatoare)
- creative
Declension
Noun
creator m (plural creatori)
- creator (person who creates, who founds something)
- (religion) God
Declension
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