creator

See also: Creator

English

Alternative forms

creatour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman creatour, from Old French creator, from Latin creātor, agent noun from perfect passive participle creātus (“created”), from verb creō (“I create”) + agent suffix -or.

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /kɹiˈeɪtɚ/
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(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɹiːˈeɪtə/
Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

creator (plural creators)

Something or someone which creates or makes something.
Kenneth E. Iverson was the creator of APL.
(religion) The deity that created the world.

Usage notes

Usually capitalized as Creator when referring to a specific deity.

Related terms

Translations

one who creates

Afrikaans: skepper
Arabic: مُبْدِع‎‎ m (mubdiʿ)
Armenian: ստեղծող (stełcoł), արարիչ (araričʿ)
Bulgarian: създател (bg) m (sǎzdátel)
Catalan: creador (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 創作者 (zh), 创作者 (zh) (chuàngzuòzhě)
Czech: tvůrce m, stvořitel m
Danish: skaber c
Dutch: maker (nl) m
Finnish: luoja (fi)
French: créateur (fr) m, créatrice (fr) f
Old French: creator m
Galician: creador (gl) m
German: Schöpfer (de) m, Schöpferin f
Greek: δημιουργός (el) m, f (dimiourgós)
Hebrew: יוצר‎‎ m (yotzer), יוצרת‎‎ f (yotzeret) (God or human being), בורא‎‎ m (bore') (who creates from nothing; God)
Indonesian: kreator (id), pencipta (id)
Italian: creatore (it) m
Japanese: 創造主 (そうぞうしゅ, sōzōshu), 創造者 (そうぞうしゃ, sōzōsha), クリエイター (kurieitā), 創作者 (そうさくしゃ, sōsakusha)
Korean: 창조자 (ko) (changjoja) (創造者)
Kurdish: afirîner (ku), çêker (ku), دروستکار‎‎

Latin: creator m
Lithuanian: kūrėjas m, kūrėja f
Maori: kaihanga, kaiwaihanga, kaiwhaihanga
Norwegian:
Bokmål: skaper m, opphavsperson m

Nynorsk: opphavsperson m
Old Occitan: creator
Persian: آفریننده‎‎ (fa) (âfarinande)
Polish: twórca (pl) m
Portuguese: criador (pt) m
Russian: созда́тель (ru) m (sozdátelʹ), созда́тельница (ru) f (sozdátelʹnica), творе́ц (ru) m (tvoréc)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: творац, створитељ, стваралац, ствараоц, стваратељ m, стваратељица f

Roman: tvorac (sh), stvoritelj (sh), stvaralac (sh), stvaraoc, stvaratelj (sh) m, stvarateljica (sh) f
Shor: пӱдӱрчи (püdürçi)
Spanish: creador (es) m
Swedish: skapare (sv)
Vietnamese: người sáng tạo
Volapük: (♂♀) jafan (vo), (♂) hijafan, (♀) jijafan, (older term) jafel
Welsh: crëwr (cy)
Yiddish: באַשעפֿער‎‎ m (bashefer), באַשאַפֿער‎‎ m (bashafer)
Zulu: umenzi class 1/2

the deity that created the world

Afrikaans: skepper
Arabic: خَالِق‎‎ m (ḵāliq)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 造物主 (zh) (zàowùzhǔ)
Dutch: schepper (nl) m
French: créateur (fr) m
German: Schöpfer (de) m, Schöpfergott (de) m, Weltschöpfer m
Japanese: 造物主 (ぞうぶつしゅ, zōbutsushu)
Korean: 조물주 (ko) (jomulju) (造物主 (ko))

Persian: خالق‎‎ (fa) (xâleq), آفریدگار‎‎ (fa) (âfaridegâr), کروگر‎‎ (karugar)
Portuguese: Criador (pt) m
Russian: созда́тель (ru) m (sozdátelʹ), творе́ц (ru) m (tvoréc)
Shor: пӱдӱрчи (püdürçi)
Swedish: skapare (sv) c
Vietnamese: tạo vật chủ (造物主), tạo hóa (vi)
Volapük: Jafal (vo), Lemekal (vo)
Yiddish: בורא‎‎ m (boyre)

Anagrams

Carreto, Cerrato, acroter, reactor

Latin

Etymology

From creō (“I create, make”) + -ātor.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /kreˈaː.tor/, [krɛˈaː.tɔr]

Noun

creātor m (genitive creātōris); third declension

a creator, author, founder
a person who elects or appoints to an office
the creator of the world; God

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	creātor	creātōrēs
genitive	creātōris	creātōrum
dative	creātōrī	creātōribus
accusative	creātōrem	creātōrēs
ablative	creātōre	creātōribus
vocative	creātor	creātōrēs

Derived terms

creātrīx

Related terms

creābilis
creāmen

creātiō
creātūra

Descendants

Albanian: krijues
Aragonese: creyador, criador
Asturian: creador, criador
Catalan: creador, criador
Corsican: creatore
English: creator
Extremaduran: criaor
French: créateur
Galician: criador
Italian: creatore
Leonese: creyador
Romanian: creator
Portuguese: criador
Spanish: creador, criador

Verb

creātor

second-person singular future passive imperative of creō
third-person singular future passive imperative of creō

References

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, 1883–1887)
creator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) God is the Creator of the world: deus est mundi procreator (not creator), aedificator, fabricator, opifex rerum

Old French

Noun

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

Alternative form of creatur

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