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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin inventor. By surface analysis, invent + -or.
Pronunciation
Noun
inventor (plural inventors)
- One who invents, either as a hobby or as an occupation.
Coordinate terms
Translations
one who invents
- Arabic: مُخْتَرِع m (muḵtariʕ), مُبْتَكِر m (mubtakir)
- Armenian: գյուտարար (hy) (gyutarar)
- Belarusian: вынахо́днік m (vynaxódnik), вынахо́дніца f (vynaxódnica)
- Bulgarian: изобрета́тел (bg) m (izobretátel), откривател (bg) m (otkrivatel)
- Catalan: inventor (ca) m, inventora (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 發明家/发明家 (zh) (fāmíngjiā)
- Czech: vynálezce (cs) m
- Dutch: uitvinder (nl) m
- Esperanto: (♂♀) inventisto, (♀) inventistino
- Finnish: keksijä (fi)
- French: inventeur (fr) m, inventrice (fr) f
- Galician: inventor m
- German: Erfinder (de) m, Erfinderin (de) f
- Greek:
- Ancient: καινουργός m (kainourgós), ἐπινοητής m (epinoētḗs), εὑρετής m (heuretḗs)
- Hungarian: feltaláló (hu)
- Irish: aireagóir
- Italian: inventore (it) m, inventrice f, ideatore (it)
- Japanese: 発明者 (はつめいしゃ, hatsumeisha)
- Kazakh: өнертапқыш (önertapqyş)
- Latin: inventor (la) m, inventrix f, repertor m
- Mongolian: зохион бүтээгч (zoxion büteegč), ᠵᠣᠬᠢᠶᠠᠨ
ᠪᠦᠲᠦᠭᠡᠭᠴᠢ (ǰokiyan bütügeɣči)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: oppfinner m
- Persian: مخترع (fa) (moxtare')
- Polish: wynalazca (pl) m, wynalazczyni (pl) f
- Portuguese: inventor (pt) m, inventora f
- Russian: изобрета́тель (ru) m (izobretátelʹ), изобрета́тельница (ru) f (izobretátelʹnica)
- Spanish: inventor (es) m, inventora f, inventriz f
- Swedish: uppfinnare (sv) c
- Thai: นักประดิษฐ์ (nák-bprà-dìt)
- Turkish: mucit (tr)
- Ukrainian: винахі́дник m (vynaxídnyk), винахі́дниця f (vynaxídnycja)
- Uyghur: كەشپىياتچى (keshpiyatchi)
- Volapük: (♂♀) datuvan (vo), (♂) hidatuvan, (♀) jidatuvan
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin inventōrem.
Pronunciation
Adjective
inventor (feminine inventora, masculine plural inventors, feminine plural inventores)
- inventive
Noun
inventor m (plural inventors, feminine inventora)
- inventor
Further reading
Galician
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin inventor, inventōrem.
Noun
inventor m (plural inventores, feminine inventora, feminine plural inventoras)
- inventor
Further reading
Latin
Etymology
From inveniō + -tor.
Pronunciation
Noun
inventor m (genitive inventōris, feminine inventrīx); third declension
- contriver, author, discoverer, inventor
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “inventor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “inventor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- inventor 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)
- inventor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a legislator: legum scriptor, conditor, inventor
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin inventōrem.
Pronunciation
Noun
inventor m (plural inventores, feminine inventora, feminine plural inventoras)
- inventor (one who invents things)
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French inventeur.
Noun
inventor m (plural inventori)
- (dated) inventor
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin inventōrem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /imbenˈtoɾ/
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: in‧ven‧tor
Noun
inventor m (plural inventores, feminine inventora or inventriz, feminine plural inventoras or inventrices)
- inventor (one who invents things)
Further reading