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• creatour (obsolete)

From Middle English creatour, from Old French creator, creatur, creatour, from Latin creātor, agent noun from perfect passive participle creātus (“created”), from verb creō (“I create”) + agent suffix -or. Mostly displaced native Old English wyrhta (modern English wright).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɹiˈeɪtɚ/

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɹiːˈeɪtə/
• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

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creator (plural creators)

1. Something or someone which creates or makes something.

   Kenneth E. Iverson was the creator of APL.

2. (social media) Ellipsis of content creator, someone who regularly produces and publishes content on social media, especially of a monetizable nature.

   Coordinate term: influencer

   creator economy

   • 2021 May 4, Taylor Lorenz, “Mr. Beast, YouTube Star, Wants to Take Over the Business World”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     People have viewed his videos more than 13 billion times. And last year as the pandemic raged, he became the most-subscribed YouTube creator in the country.

   • 2022 July 14, Rafqa Touma, “Melbourne woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     The video shows TikTok creator Harrison Pawluk approaching the woman, Maree, in a public shopping centre.

3. (religion, sometimes capitalized) The deity that created the world.
4. (sports) A player who creates opportunities for their team to score goals; a playmaker.
   • 2019 July 3, Andrea Canales, Jonathan Tannenwald, “Pulisic, McKennie show plenty of promise for U.S. in Gold Cup”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer‎^[3]:

     Hernández is not a creator and suffered from a lack of service in previous seasons.

   • 2022 October 13, Richard Jolly, “Record-breaker Mohamed Salah delivers timely reminder of his greatest strength ahead of clash with champions”, in Independent.ie‎^[4]:

     There have been times this season when it seemed Liverpool were trying to reinvent Salah, the scorer supreme, as a creator and this was a sudden reminder of his greatest strength.

   • 2022 October 19, Andre Snellings, “Fantasy basketball: Why Jalen Brunson can be even better in New York”, in ESPN‎^[5]:

     As such, when Doncic was on the court, Brunson was a secondary facilitator and more of a finisher than a creator.

• Usually capitalized as Creator when referring to a specific deity. creator is usually used of female creators as well, the feminine forms are rarer.

• maker

• Carreto, Cerrato, acroter, reactor

From creō (“I create, make”) +‎ -tor. Compare Sanskrit कर्तृ (kartṛ).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kreˈaː.tor/, [kreˈäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kreˈa.tor/, [kreˈäːt̪or]

creātor m (genitive creātōris, feminine creātrīx); third declension

1. a creator, author, founder

   Synonyms: conditor, auctor

2. a person who elects or appoints to an office
3. the creator of the world; God

Third-declension noun.

• creātrīx

creātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of creō

• “creator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “creator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• creator 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)
• creator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[6], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) God is the Creator of the world: deus est mundi procreator (not creator), aedificator, fabricator, opifex rerum
    
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “creator”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 1297

creator oblique singular, m (oblique plural creators, nominative singular creators, nominative plural creator)

1. Alternative form of creatur

From French créateur, from Latin creātor. Equivalent to crea +‎ -tor.

• IPA^(key): /kre.aˈtor/

creator m or n (feminine singular creatoare, masculine plural creatori, feminine and neuter plural creatoare)

1. creative

creator m (plural creatori)

1. creator (person who creates, who founds something)
2. (religion) God

• creator in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)