inventor

• inventour (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin inventor. By surface analysis, invent +‎ -or.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɛntɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɛntə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)

inventor (plural inventors)

1. One who invents, either as a hobby or as an occupation.

• inventress
• inventrix

• noverint

Borrowed from Latin inventōrem.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [im.bənˈto]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [iɱ.vənˈto]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [iɱ.venˈtoɾ]

inventor (feminine inventora, masculine plural inventors, feminine plural inventores)

1. inventive

inventor m (plural inventors, feminine inventora, feminine plural inventores)

1. inventor

• “inventor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “inventor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “inventor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “inventor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Learned borrowing from Latin inventor, inventōrem.

inventor m (plural inventores, feminine inventora, feminine plural inventoras)

1. inventor

• inventar

• “inventor”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

From inveniō +‎ -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪnˈwɛn.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [iɱˈvɛn̪.t̪or]

inventor m (genitive inventōris, feminine inventrīx); third declension

1. contriver, author, discoverer, inventor

Third-declension noun.

• inventio

• “inventor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “inventor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "inventor", 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)
• inventor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a legislator: legum scriptor, conditor, inventor
    

Borrowed from Latin inventōrem.

• Hyphenation: in‧ven‧tor

inventor m (plural inventores, feminine inventora, feminine plural inventoras)

1. inventor (one who invents things)

Borrowed from French inventeur.

• IPA^(key): /in.venˈtor/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -or
• Hyphenation: in‧ven‧tor

inventor m (plural inventori)

1. (obsolete) synonym of inventator (“inventor”)

• “inventor”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

Borrowed from Latin inventōrem.

• IPA^(key): /imbenˈtoɾ/ [ĩm.bẽn̪ˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: in‧ven‧tor

inventor m (plural inventores, feminine inventora or inventriz, feminine plural inventoras or inventrices)

1. inventor (one who invents things)

• “inventor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024