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"editor (of a newspaper or text)" in seven languages

Meaningeditor (of a newspaper or text)

Spanish

redactor

/redakˈtoɾ/

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Feminine redactora.

French

rédacteur

/ʁedaktœʁ/

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Feminine rédactrice; the chief editor is the rédacteur en chef.

Italian

redattore

/redatˈtore/

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Feminine redattrice.

Portuguese

redator

/hedaˈtoh/

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Romanian

redactor

/redakˈtor/

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Catalan

redactor

/rədəkˈto/

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English

editor

/ˈɛdɪtɚ/

other source · Latin ēditor 'publisher'

English → Italianeditor (of a newspaper or text)redattoreNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: redact, redaction.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

REDĀCTUM (REDIGERE)‘brought back, put in order’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

Trap: Spanish editor, French éditeur and Italian editore usually mean 'publisher'. The person who writes and edits copy is a redactor, rédacteur or redattore, from Latin REDIGERE 'to put in order'.

English relatives: redact, redaction

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In a sentence

  • esEs redactora en un periódico.
  • frElle est rédactrice dans un journal.
  • itFa la redattrice in un giornale.
  • ptEla é redatora de um jornal.
  • roEste redactoare la un ziar.
  • caÉs redactora en un diari.
  • enShe is an editor at a newspaper.

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