innovator

See also: Innovator and innovatör

English

Alternative forms

• innovatour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

From Late Latin innovātor, from innovō; equivalent to innovate +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪnəˌveɪtəɹ/

Noun

innovator (plural innovators)

1. Someone who innovates; a creator of new ideas.
   • 2011 July 4, Simon Reynolds, “Is Björk the last great pop innovator?”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Competition gets thinner still when it comes to the 00s: Animal Collective and Joanna Newsom do one thing very well, Gaga and MIA are aggregators not innovators. Björk is peerless.

2. (marketing) An early adopter.

Derived terms

• innovator's dilemma

Translations

someone who innovates

• Azerbaijani: yenilikçi, yeniçi
• Catalan: innovador (ca) m
• Czech: inovátor m
• Finnish: innovaattori
• French: innovateur (fr) m
• Galician: innovador (gl) m
• German: Innovator m, Innovatorin f, Erneuerer m, Erneuererin f
• Italian: innovatore (it) m
• Latin: novātor m
• Polish: innowator m, innowatorka f
• Russian: нова́тор (ru) m (novátor)
• Slovak: inovátor, priekopník, priekopníčka
• Spanish: innovador (es) m
• Swedish: innovatör c

See also

• ideator
• innovating

Latin

Verb

innovātor

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