4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Author \Au"thor\ ([add]"th[~e]r), n. [OE. authour, autour, OF.
autor, F. auteur, fr. L. auctor, sometimes, but erroneously,
written autor or author, fr. augere to increase, to produce.
See {Auction}, n.]
1. The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence,
the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Author \Au"thor\ ([add]"th[~e]r), v. t.
1. To occasion; to originate. [Obs.]
Such an overthrow . . . I have authored. --Chapman.
2. To tell; to say; to declare. [Obs.]
More of him I dare not author. --Massinger.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
author
n 1: writes (books or stories or articles or the like)
professionally (for pay) [syn: {writer}]
2: someone who originates or causes or initiates something; "he
was the generator of several complaints" [syn: {generator},
{source}]
v : be the author of; "She authored this play"
From eng-fra [engfra]:
author
[ɔːθər]
auteur
auteur