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#* {{quote-book|en|title=The Case of Kieng Chek (Kham Muon) before the Franco-Siamese Mixed Court|year=1894|author=Franco-Siamese Mixed Court|location=Bangkok|publisher=n.p.|page=4|text=Accomplices of a crime or an offence shall incur the same punishment as the '''authors''' of such a crime or offence, except when the law will have disposed otherwise.|url=https://archive.org/download/caseofkiengchekk00franrich/caseofkiengchekk00franrich.pdf}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=The Case of Kieng Chek (Kham Muon) before the Franco-Siamese Mixed Court|year=1894|author=Franco-Siamese Mixed Court|location=Bangkok|publisher=n.p.|page=4|text=Accomplices of a crime or an offence shall incur the same punishment as the '''authors''' of such a crime or offence, except when the law will have disposed otherwise.|url=https://archive.org/download/caseofkiengchekk00franrich/caseofkiengchekk00franrich.pdf}}
# {{lb|en|obsolete}} One's [[authority]] for something: an [[informant]].
# {{lb|en|obsolete}} One's [[authority]] for something: an [[informant]].
#* '''1699''', ''Seven new Colloquies translated out of Erasmus''
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1699|title=Seven new Colloquies translated out of Erasmus
#*: Let me inform you ''en passant'', Ladies, that those Villains the ''Heathens'', as my '''Authors''' tell me, (and I thought it wou'd{{sic}} not be amiss to communicate such a nice Observation to this House) used to call our Saviour ''Chrestus'', and not ''Christus'', by way of Contempt and Derision {{...}}
|passage=Let me inform you ''en passant'', Ladies, that those Villains the ''Heathens'', as my '''Authors''' tell me, (and I thought it wou'd{{sic}} not be amiss to communicate such a nice Observation to this House) used to call our Saviour ''Chrestus'', and not ''Christus'', by way of Contempt and Derision {{...}}}}


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English

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Etymology

From Middle English auctour, from Anglo-Norman autour, from Old French autor, from Latin auctor, from augeō (“to increase, originate”). The h, also found in Middle French autheur, is unetymological as there is no h in the original Latin spelling. The OED attributes the h to contamination by authentic.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔːθə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: au‧thor

Noun

author (plural authors)

  1. The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.
    The copyright of any original writing belongs initially and properly to its author.
    Have you read any Corinthian authors?
  2. Someone who writes books for a living.
  3. (obsolete, criminal law) Principal; the primary participant in a crime.
    • 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 10, p. 158:
      We hear […] of fratricidal murders, and stern reprisals on their authors.
    • 1894, Franco-Siamese Mixed Court, The Case of Kieng Chek (Kham Muon) before the Franco-Siamese Mixed Court‎[1], Bangkok: n.p., page 4:
      Accomplices of a crime or an offence shall incur the same punishment as the authors of such a crime or offence, except when the law will have disposed otherwise.
  4. (obsolete) One's authority for something: an informant.
    • 1699, Seven new Colloquies translated out of Erasmus:
      Let me inform you en passant, Ladies, that those Villains the Heathens, as my Authors tell me, (and I thought it wou'd[sic] not be amiss to communicate such a nice Observation to this House) used to call our Saviour Chrestus, and not Christus, by way of Contempt and Derision […]

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Verb

author (third-person singular simple present authors, present participle authoring, simple past and past participle authored)

  1. (chiefly US, sometimes proscribed) To create a work as its author.

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Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

author m (genitive authōris); third declension

  1. (proscribed) Alternative form of auctor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative author authōrēs
genitive authōris authōrum
dative authōrī authōribus
accusative authōrem authōrēs
ablative authōre authōribus
vocative author authōrēs

References

  • “author”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    “auctor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • auctor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 184f..

Middle English

Noun

author

  1. Alternative form of auctour
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