英和和英

発音

• IPA: /kəmˈpɒzɪtə(ɹ)/

名詞

compositor (plural compositors)

1. A person who sets type; a typesetter.
   • 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:

     Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.

   • 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter IV, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:

     All Spaniards, we discovered, knew two English expressions. One was 'O.K., baby', the other was a word used by the Barcelona whores in their dealings with English sailors, and I am afraid the compositors would not print it.

   • 1983, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge University Press, Second edition, 2005, p. 56:

     However late medieval copyists were supervised — and controls were much more lax than many accounts suggest — scribes were incapable of committing the sort of "standardized" error that was produced by a compositor who dropped the word "not" from the Seventh Commandment and thus created the "wicked" Bible of 1631.

2. One who, or that which, composes or sets in order.

   I work as an image compositor.

3. (computer graphics) A system that puts images together in a buffer (such as individual windows on a desktop) to generate a final display image.

派生語

関連する語

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [kɔmˈpɔ.sɪ.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [komˈpɔː.s̬i.tor]

名詞

compositor m (genitive compositōris); third declension

1. a maker, arranger, composer

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

関連する語

• compositiō

派生した語

• → Catalan: compositor
• → French: compositeur
• → Galician: compositor
• → Italian: compositore
• → Portuguese: compositor
• → Romanian: compozitor
• → Spanish: compositor

参照

• “compositor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “compositor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers