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compositor

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English

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Etymology

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From French compositeur, from Latin compositor.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kəmˈpɒzɪtə(ɹ)/

Noun

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compositor (plural compositors)

  1. 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.
  2. One who, or that which, composes or sets in order.
    I work as an image compositor.
  3. (computer graphics) A system that puts images together in a buffer (such as individual windows on a desktop) to generate a final display image.

Derived terms

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Translations

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin compositōrem.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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compositor m (plural compositors, feminine compositora)

  1. composer
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Galician

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Etymology

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From Latin compositor.

Noun

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compositor m (plural compositores, feminine compositora, feminine plural compositoras)

  1. composer (one who composes music)
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Latin

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Etymology

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compositus, perfect passive participle of compōnō (to arrange)-tor

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Noun

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compositor m (genitive compositōris); third declension

  1. a maker, arranger, composer

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative compositor compositōrēs
genitive compositōris compositōrum
dative compositōrī compositōribus
accusative compositōrem compositōrēs
ablative compositōre compositōribus
vocative compositor compositōrēs
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Descendants

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References

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  • 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

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin compositōrem.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
  • Hyphenation: com‧po‧si‧tor

Noun

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compositor m (plural compositores, feminine compositora, feminine plural compositoras)

  1. composer (one who composes; an author)
  2. composer (one who composes music)
  3. (music) songwriter
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Spanish

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Etymology

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From Latin compositor.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /komposiˈtoɾ/ [kõm.po.siˈt̪oɾ]
  • Audio (Spain):(file)
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: com‧po‧si‧tor

Noun

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compositor m (plural compositores, feminine compositora, feminine plural compositoras)

  1. composer
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