editor

• ed., edit. (abbreviation)
• Ed. (titular abbreviation)
• editour (obsolete, rare)

From Medieval Latin ēditor, from Late Latin ēditor,^[1] from ēditus, perfect passive participle of ēdō (“give out, put forth, publish”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛd.ɪ.tə/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɛd.ɪ.təɹ/, (formal) [ˈɛɾ.ɪ.tɚ], (lax) [ˈɛɾ.ɪ.ɾɚ]

  • Audio (California):

    (file)

• Audio (UK):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ed‧i‧tor

editor (plural editors)

1. A person who edits or makes changes to documents.
   • 2024 August 29, Ashley Rindsberg, “How Wikipedia Launders Regime Propaganda”, in Pirate Wires‎^[1], archived from the original on 29 August 2024:

     Eight days after Kamala Harris announced Tim Walz as her running mate, the Criticism section on Walz’s Wikipedia article was removed in its entirety. (The removal was made by an editor with administrator status who is in the top 100 list of editors by number of edits.)

2. A copy editor.
3. A person who edited a specific document.

   John Johnson wrote this term paper and the editor was Joan Johnson.

4. A person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or decides which ones to publish.

   John is the city editor at the Daily Times.

5. A machine used for editing (cutting and splicing) movie film
6. (computing) A program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files.

   Hyponym: text editor

   The TPU EVE editor is an excellent, extensible, programmable editor.

7. (television, cinematography) Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.

• doiter, dotier, rioted, tie rod, tierod, triode

Borrowed from Latin ēditōrem.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.ðiˈto]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [e.ðiˈtoɾ]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

editor (feminine editora, masculine plural editors, feminine plural editores)

1. editing

editor m (plural editors, feminine editora, feminine plural editores)

1. (graphic arts, publishing, computing) editor

• editar
• editorial

• “editor”, 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

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛdɪtor]

editor m anim

1. editor (person who edits, e.g. a magazine)

   Synonym: redaktor

editor m inan

1. editor (computer program for entering text)

editor c (singular definite editoren, plural indefinite editorer)

1. editor

• “editor” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from English editor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛdɪtɔr/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: edi‧tor

editor m (plural editors, diminutive editortje n)

1. editor (computer program to edit text documents)

From Latin ēditor.

editor m (plural editores, feminine editora, feminine plural editoras)

1. editor

• editar
• editorial

• “editor”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

From English editor, from Medieval Latin ēditor, from Late Latin ēditor, from ēditus, perfect passive participle of ēdō (“give out, put forth, publish”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛditɔr/
• Hyphenation: èdi‧tor
• Rhymes: -ɔr

èditor (plural editor-editor)

1. editor:
   1. a person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or decides which ones to publish

      Synonyms: pengedit, penyunting, redaktur

   2. (computing) a program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files

• “editor”, 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 ēdō + -tor.

ēditor m (genitive ēditōris); third declension

1. (Late Latin) editor, publisher

Third-declension noun.

From edō (“to eat”).

editor

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

From ēdō (“to give out”).

ēditor

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

• “editor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "editor", 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)

Borrowed from Latin ēditor.

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: e‧di‧tor

editor m (plural editores, feminine editora, feminine plural editoras)

1. editor (person who edits)
2. publisher (person who publishes printed media)

editor m (plural editores)

1. (computer software) editor (program for modifying files, especially text files)

• editorar
• editoria

• editar
• editora
• editorial

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

Borrowed from French éditeur.

editor m (plural editori)

1. editor

From Latin ēditor.

• IPA^(key): /ediˈtoɾ/ [e.ð̞iˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: e‧di‧tor

editor m (plural editores, feminine editora, feminine plural editoras)

1. editor

• “editor”, 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