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auditor

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English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɔːdɪtɚ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

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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.

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Translations

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Czech

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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auditor m anim (female equivalent auditorka)

  1. auditor (one who audits bookkeeping accounts)

Declension

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Further reading

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  • 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, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Danish

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Etymology

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Doublet of auditør

Noun

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auditor c (singular definite auditoren, plural indefinite auditorer)

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Declension

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Dutch auditor, from Latin audītor (hearer, auditor). Doublet of oditur.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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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

Synonyms

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Further reading

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Latin

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Etymology

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From audiō (hear, listen) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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 (books were read aloud)

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative audītor audītōrēs
genitive audītōris audītōrum
dative audītōrī audītōribus
accusative audītōrem audītōrēs
ablative audītōre audītōribus
vocative audītor audītōrēs
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Descendants

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Verb

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audītor

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

References

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  • 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’s 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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin audītōrem. Doublet of ouvidor.

Pronunciation

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  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /aw.diˈtoɾ/ [aw.ðiˈtoɾ]
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /aw.diˈto.ɾi/ [aw.ðiˈto.ɾi]

  • Hyphenation: au‧di‧tor

Noun

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

  1. auditor (one who audits bookkeeping accounts)
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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French auditeur, from Latin auditor.

Adjective

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

  1. auditorial

Declension

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singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative
indefinite auditor auditoare auditori auditoare
definite auditorul auditoarea auditorii auditoarele
genitive-
dative
indefinite auditor auditoare auditori auditoare
definite auditorului auditoarei auditorilor auditoarelor

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin audītōrem. Doublet of oidor.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

  1. auditor (one who audits bookkeeping accounts)

Derived terms

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Further reading

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