sorcerer

English

From Middle English sorcerere, from Old French sorcier, ultimately from Latin sors (“oracular response”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sort, lineup”)

sorcerer (plural sorcerers)

Sometimes misspelled sorceror, possibly from erroneous analogy to Latinate words ending in -or

magician/wizard drawing upon natural powers

Italian: stregone (it) m
Japanese: 魔法使い (まほうつかい, mahō tsukai), 魔術師 (ja) (まじゅつし, majutsushi)
Kannada: ಮಾಂತ್ರಿಕ (kn) (māntrika)
Latin: venēficus m, magus m
Ngarrindjeri: thumpamarldi
Norman: enchorchéleux m
Polish: czarownik (pl) m, czarodziej (pl) m
Portuguese: feiticeiro (pt), sortílego
Quechua: layqa
Russian: волше́бник (ru) m (volšébnik), колду́н (ru) m (koldún), маг (ru) m (mag), чароде́й (ru) m (čarodéj)
Scottish Gaelic: draoidh m
Serbo-Croatian: vrač (sh) m, vračar (sh) m, vračara (sh) f, vračarica f, bajač m, bajačica (sh) f, bajalica (sh) m, f, čarobnjak (sh) m
Slovene: čarovnik (sl) m, vrač m
Spanish: brujo (es) m, hechicero (es) m
Swahili: mshirikina (sw)
Swedish: trollkarl (sv) c
Syriac, Classical: ܚܰܪܳܫܳܐ‎‎
Tagalog: alasip
Turkish: büyücü (tr), yadacı (tr), sihirbaz (tr)

sorcerer

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