auditor

• auditour (obsolete)

From Anglo-Norman auditour, from Latin audītor (“hearer, auditor”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔːdɪtɚ/

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auditor (plural auditors)

1. One who audits bookkeeping accounts.
2. In many jurisdictions, an elected or appointed public official in charge of the public accounts; a comptroller.
3. One who audits an academic course; who attends the lectures but does not earn academic credit.
4. (rare) One who listens, typically as a member of an audience.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     There is another of better notice, and whispered through the world with some attention; credulous and vulgar auditors readily believing it, and more judicious and distinctive heads not altogether rejecting it.

   • 1851 June–July (date written), Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Gorgon’s Head”, in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, published November 1851 (indicated as 1852), →OCLC, page 32:

     Thus (as you will see with half an eye, my wise little auditors) these good old dames had fallen into a strange perplexity.

   • 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds:

     Sampson's tongue was still flying with rapidity, as if his auditors had not been void of a number, while Mr. Alboni and Natalie were holding a consultation aside.

   • 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     As we crossed the hall the telephone-bell rang, and we were the involuntary auditors of Professor Challenger's end of the ensuing dialogue.

5. (Scientology) One trained to perform spiritual guidance procedures.

• → Indonesian: auditor
• → Maltese: awditur

• IPA^(key): [ˈau̯dɪtor]

auditor m anim (female equivalent auditorka)

1. auditor (one who audits bookkeeping accounts)

• “auditor”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “auditor”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “auditor”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995

Doublet of auditør.

auditor c (singular definite auditoren, plural indefinite auditorer)

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• “auditor” in Den Danske Ordbog

From English auditor, from Anglo-Norman auditour, from Latin audītor (“hearer, auditor”). Doublet of oditur.

• IPA^(key): [au̯ˈd̪itɔr]
• Hyphenation: au‧di‧tor

auditor (plural auditor-auditor)

1. auditor:
   1. one who audits bookkeeping accounts
   2. in many jurisdictions, an elected or appointed public official in charge of the public accounts; a comptroller

• pengaudit
• juruaudit (Standard Malay)

• “auditor”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From audiō (“hear, listen”) + -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [au̯ˈdiː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [au̯ˈdiː.tor]

audītor m (genitive audītōris); third declension

1. a hearer
2. an auditor
3. a pupil, disciple; a person who listens to teachings

   Synonym: discipulus

4. (by metonymy) a reader of a book (in antiquity, books were often read aloud)

Third-declension noun.

audītor

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

• “auditor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “auditor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "auditor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “auditor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to attend Plato's lectures: audire Platonem, auditorem esse Platonis
    
• auditor in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Learned borrowing from Latin audītōrem. Doublet of ouvidor.

• Hyphenation: au‧di‧tor

auditor m (plural auditores, feminine auditora, feminine plural auditoras)

1. auditor (one who audits bookkeeping accounts)

• auditório

• “auditor”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “auditor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French auditeur, from Latin auditor.

auditor m or n (feminine singular auditoare, masculine plural auditori, feminine/neuter plural auditoare)

1. auditorial

Borrowed from Latin audītōrem. Doublet of oidor.

• IPA^(key): /audiˈtoɾ/ [au̯.ð̞iˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: au‧di‧tor

auditor m (plural auditores, feminine auditora, feminine plural auditoras)

1. auditor (one who audits bookkeeping accounts)

• “auditor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025