creator Latin · revision 7351

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cicero|origins=la creō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [kreˈaː.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [kreˈaː.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''creātor''' ''m'' (genitive creātōris, feminine creātrīx); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[creō]] “to create, beget” with the agent suffix [[-tor]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) Wiktionary compares [[sa|कर्तृ|tr=kartṛ́|t=maker]].^(Wiktionary) Isidore says God is called Creator because all things were created by him.^(Isidore)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Cicero, whom he dates 81–43 BC, and Cicero uses it in verse of the creator of the gods and of the founder of Rome.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant one who begets, a father, as in Ovid, the creator of the world, the founder of a city, as Cicero's ''creātor huius urbis'', and one who appoints to an office.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Lewis and Short call it very rare in the general sense.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant creator, maker, producer.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin used it of the Creator, God.^(Niermeyer 1976) It survives in Spanish and Portuguese ''criador'' and Italian ''creatore'', and through Anglo-French it gave [[en|creator]] about 1300, of God.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of the founder of Rome.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of a father.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 560–636 AD – Isidore explains it of God.^(Isidore)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1300 – English ''creator'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A begetter, father.^(OLD 2012)

+ # The [[m|en|creator]] of the world.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A founder.^(OLD 2012)

+ # One who appoints to office.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' The Creator, God.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[creātrīx]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[creābilis]]

+ * [[creāmen]]

+ * [[creātiō]]

+ * [[creātūra]]

+ * [[creō]]

+ * [[en|creator]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}