Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to author
Participle: authored
Gerund: authoring
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | author |
| you | author |
| he;she;it | authors |
| we | author |
| you | author |
| they | author |
Perfect
| I | have authored |
| you | have authored |
| he;she;it | has authored |
| we | have authored |
| you | have authored |
| they | have authored |
Past
| I | authored |
| you | authored |
| he;she;it | authored |
| we | authored |
| you | authored |
| they | authored |
Pluperfect
| I | had authored |
| you | had authored |
| he;she;it | had authored |
| we | had authored |
| you | had authored |
| they | had authored |
Future
| I | will author |
| you | will author |
| he;she;it | will author |
| we | will author |
| you | will author |
| they | will author |
Future Perfect
| I | will have authored |
| you | will have authored |
| he;she;it | will have authored |
| we | will have authored |
| you | will have authored |
| they | will have authored |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | author |
| you | author |
| he;she;it | author |
| we | author |
| you | author |
| they | author |
Perfect
| I | have authored |
| you | have authored |
| he;she;it | have authored |
| we | have authored |
| you | have authored |
| they | have authored |
Imperfect
| I | authored |
| you | authored |
| he;she;it | authored |
| we | authored |
| you | authored |
| they | authored |
Pluperfect
| I | had authored |
| you | had authored |
| he;she;it | had authored |
| we | had authored |
| you | had authored |
| they | had authored |
Conditional
Present
| I | would author |
| you | would author |
| he;she;it | would author |
| we | would author |
| you | would author |
| they | would author |
Perfect
| I | would have authored |
| you | would have authored |
| he;she;it | would have authored |
| we | would have authored |
| you | would have authored |
| they | would have authored |
Imperative
| you | author |
| we | Let's author |
| you | author |
Verbs conjugated like 'author'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'author'
abhor,
anchor,
auth,
coauthor,
reauthor,
suther,
tutor,
wuther,
abhour,
achoo,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1300,
autor "father," from O.Fr.
auctor, from L.
auctorem (nom.
auctor) "enlarger, founder," lit. "one who causes to grow," agent noun from
augere "to increase" (see augment). Meaning "one who sets forth written statements" is from c.1380. The
-t- changed to
-th- on mistaken assumption of Gk. origin. The verb is attested from 1596.
"...[W]riting means revealing onesself to excess .... This is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, why even night is not night enough. ... I have often thought that the best mode of life for me would be to sit in the innermost room of a spacious locked cellar with my writing things and a lamp. Food would be brought and always put down far away from my room, outside the cellar's outermost door. The walk to my food, in my dressing gown, through the vaulted cellars, would be my only exercise. I would then return to my table, eat slowly and with deliberation, then start writing again at once. And how I would write! From what depths I would drag it up!" [Franz Kafka]
2. From Middle English auctour, from Anglo-Norman autour, from Old French autor, from Latin auctor, from augeō (“to increase, originate”). The h, also found in Middle French autheur, is unetymological as there is no h in the original Latin spelling. The OED attributes the h to contamination by authentic. Doublet of auteur. See: Latin '
auctor'.
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