author

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from. The, also found in 🇨🇬, is unetymological as there is no in the original Latin spelling. The OED attributes the h to contamination by. .

Noun

 * 1) The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition; or, one of the creators of a collaborative work.
 * 2) Someone who writes books for a living.
 * 3)  Principal; the primary participant in a crime.
 * 4)  One's authority for something: an informant.
 * 1) Someone who writes books for a living.
 * 2)  Principal; the primary participant in a crime.
 * 3)  One's authority for something: an informant.
 * 1) Someone who writes books for a living.
 * 2)  Principal; the primary participant in a crime.
 * 3)  One's authority for something: an informant.
 * 1)  One's authority for something: an informant.
 * 1)  One's authority for something: an informant.
 * 1)  One's authority for something: an informant.

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: مُؤَلِّف, مُصَنِّف
 * Aragonese: autor, autora
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: autor
 * Azerbaijani:, avtor
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: а́ўтар, а́ўтарка
 * Bengali: ,
 * Breton: aozer
 * Bulgarian:, а́вторка,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chechen: яздархо
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Chukchi: тэйкыткуԓьын
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: verkinto, aŭtoro
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: rithøvundur, høvundur
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ავტორი
 * German:, , , , ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀρχηγέτης
 * Gujarati: લેખક
 * Haitian Creole: otè
 * Hebrew:, ,
 * Hindi:, ,
 * Hungarian: m, szerzőnő f,, , , ,
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: tekijä, avtora
 * Irish: údar
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, , , 作成者,
 * Kazakh: автор,
 * Khmer: គន្ថការ
 * Korean:, , 글쓴이, 지은이, ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Ladino: autór
 * Lao: ນັກປະພັນ
 * Latin: ; repertor
 * Latvian: autors, autore
 * Lithuanian: autorius, autorė
 * Luxembourgish: Auteur
 * Macedonian: автор, авторка
 * Marathi: लेखक, लेखिका
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: автор, серышоза
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: forfattar
 * Occitan:
 * Persian: پدیدآورنده,
 * Plautdietsch: Schreftstala
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ùghdar
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: а̀утор, а̀уторица
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene: avtor, avtorica
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: awtor, awtorka
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik: муаллиф, мусанниф,
 * Tamil: படைப்பாளர்,
 * Telugu:, రచయిత్రి, , గ్రంథకర్త, గ్రంథకారుడు
 * Thai: ผู้เขียน, นักประพันธ์
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen:, ýazyjy
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Uyghur: ئاپتور, مۇئەللىپ, ئاساسچى
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: ,
 * Yiddish: מחבר, מעכאַבער, שרײַבער, אויטאָר, פֿאַרפֿאַסער, שריפֿטשטעלער, וואָרטקינסטלער, ליטעראַט, פֿעדערניק
 * Zazaki: nuskar, nusger
 * Zhuang: bouxsij


 * Albanian: ,
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Esperanto:
 * Ewe:
 * Maltese:, , ,
 * Telugu: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To create a work as its author.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: aŭtori, verki
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, , , , szerzője
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Slovak: vytvoriť, napísať, tvoriť,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh: awduro

Etymology
Late variant of and  under influence of descendants such as English.

Noun

 * : source, creator, vendor,, artist.