actor

• acter (uncommon)
• actour (obsolete)

Middle English actour, from Anglo-Norman actor, Middle French actor, and their source, Latin āctor (“doer”), from agō (“to do”). Equivalent to act +‎ -or. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄκτωρ (áktōr, “leader”), from ἄγω (ágō, “lead, carry, convey, bring”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈak.tə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæk.tɚ/

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• Homophone: acter
• Rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)

actor (plural actors, feminine actress, or (nonstandard) actoress)

1. (obsolete, law) Someone who institutes a legal suit; a plaintiff or complainant. [13th–19th c.]
2. (obsolete) Someone acting on behalf of someone else; a guardian. [14th–18th c.]
3. Someone or something that takes part in some action; a doer, an agent. [from 15th c.]
   • 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 373:

     Never, my dear Bethel, did the most feverish dreams of fiction produce scenes more painful, or more terrific, than the real events to which I have been an actor, since the date of my last letter.

4. A person who acts a part in a theatrical play or (later) in film or television; a dramatic performer. [from 16th c.]
   • 1991, Ani DiFranco (lyrics and music), “Anticipate”, in Not So Soft:

     Seems like everyone's an actor / Or they're an actor's best friend / I wonder what was wrong to begin with / That they should all have to pretend

   • 2017 April 2, “Marijuana”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 7, HBO:

     Exactly. Marijuana is something we just all gradually decided is okay, like Mark Wahlberg as a serious actor. “You know what? Sure, I’ve decided I’m fine with that.”

   • 2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 88:

     "I'm an actress -- actor, as we have to say these days."

5. (obsolete, Ancient Rome) An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes. [16th–19th c.]
6. (grammar) The subject performing the action of a verb. [from 18th c.]
7. (software engineering) The entity that performs a role (in use case analysis).

• In the sense of a person who acts in a play or film, the traditional sense of the word only applied to male actors, the term actress being used for the female counterpart.

• (person who performs in a theatrical play or film): performer, player
• (one who acts): doer
• (one who takes part): participant
• (a plaintiff): complainant, plaintiff
• (entity performing a role in use case analysis): role

• (grammatical role): undergoer

• (person who performs in a theatrical play or film): actress
• enactor
• reenactor

• → Scottish Gaelic: actair
• → Welsh: actor

• actor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “actor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• actor at OneLook Dictionary Search

• Cator, Croat, Croat., carto-, rocta, taroc

From Latin āctor.

actor m (plural actores)

1. An actor.

• actriz

From Latin āctor.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /əkˈto/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /akˈtoɾ/

actor m (plural actors, feminine actriu)

1. An actor.

• actuar

• “actor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowed from Latin āctor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑk.tɔr/
• Hyphenation: ac‧tor
• Rhymes: -ɑktɔr

actor m (plural actores or actoren, diminutive actortje n)

1. An actor; an agent, a player, who has a part in some field of economical, social or other action, i.e. an active human factor.

• acteur
• actie
• activiteit
• agenda
• agens
• ageren
• agitatie
• agitator
• reactor

• IPA^(key): /akˈtoɾ/

actor m (plural actores, feminine actriz, feminine plural actrices)

1. actor

   A acción revela o actor.

   The act reveals the actor

• “actor” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Agent noun formed from āctus +‎ -tor, perfect passive participle of agō (“do, act, make”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈaːk.tor/, [ˈäːkt̪ɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈak.tor/, [ˈäkt̪or]

āctor m (genitive āctōris, feminine āctrīx); third declension

1. a doer, an agent
2. An actor (person who performs in a theatrical play or movie).
3. A (law) prosecutor, plaintiff, advocate, orator.

Third-declension noun.

• āctiō
• āctrīx
• āctus
• agitō

• “actor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “actor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• actor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• actor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the actor who plays the leading part: actor primarum (secundarum, tertiarum) partium
    
• “actor”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “actor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “actor”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “actor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

actor

1. Alternative form of actour

From Latin āctor.

• IPA^(key): /atˈtu/

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actor m (plural actors, feminine actritz, feminine plural actrises)

1. An actor.

actor m (plural actores)

1. Superseded spelling of ator. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect.)

• aftor (dated)

Borrowed from French acteur, Latin āctor.

• IPA^(key): /akˈtor/

actor m (plural actori, feminine equivalent actriță)

1. (acting) An actor.

• artist, interpret

• actoraș
• actoricesc
• actorie

• teatralist

• actor in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

From English actor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaktər/

actor (plural actors)

1. An actor.

From Latin actor.

• IPA^(key): /aɡˈtoɾ/ [aɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
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• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: ac‧tor

actor m (plural actores, feminine actriz, feminine plural actrices)

1. actor (person who performs in a theatrical play or movie)

actor m (plural actores, feminine actora, feminine plural actoras)

1. (law) defendant

• “actor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• corta
• tocar

From English actor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaktɔr/

actor m (plural actorion)

1. An actor.

• actores (“actress”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “actor”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies