Etymograph

English

editor

Editor comes from Medieval Latin ēditor, from Late Latin ēditor, from Latin ēdō ‘to give out, publish’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEēdō1‘to give out, put forth’
  2. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEēditor1
  3. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500ēditor1
  4. Englishearliest quotation 2024editor1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English editor
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2024, Ashley Rindsberg, How Wikipedia Launders Regime Propaganda: “Eight days after Kamala Harris announced Tim Walz as…”.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEēdōWiktionary, English editor‘to give out, put forth’
  2. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEēditorWiktionary, English editor
  3. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500ēditorWiktionary, English editor
  4. Englishearliest quotation 2024editorWiktionary, English editor. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2024, Ashley Rindsberg, How Wikipedia Launders Regime Propaganda: “Eight days after Kamala Harris announced Tim Walz as…”

Every English word from Latin ēdō

Today it means

noun A person who edits or makes changes to documents.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “editor”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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