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Webster 1913 Edition
Auditor
1.
A hearer or listener.
Macaulay.
2.
A person appointed and authorized to audit or examine an account or accounts, compare the charges with the vouchers, examine the parties and witnesses, allow or reject charges, and state the balance.
3.
One who hears judicially, as in an audience court.
☞ In the United States government, and in the State governments, there are auditors of the treasury and of the public accounts. The name is also applied to persons employed to check the accounts of courts, corporations, companies, societies, and partnerships.
Webster 1828 Edition
Auditor
AUD'ITOR
, [L.]1.
A hearer; one who attends to hear a discourse.2.
A person appointed and authorized to examine an account or accounts, compare the charges with the vouchers, examine the parties and witnesses, allow or reject charges, and state the balance. It is usual with courts to refer accounts, on which an action is brought, to auditors for adjustment, and their report, if received, is the basis of the judgment.In England, there are officers who are auditors of courts; as the auditors of the Exchequer, of the receipts, &c.
Definition 2024
auditor
auditor
English
Alternative forms
- auditour (obsolete)
Noun
auditor (plural auditors)
- One who audits bookkeeping accounts.
- In many jurisdictions, an elected or appointed public official in charge of the public accounts; a comptroller.
- One who audits an academic course; who attends the lectures but does not earn academic credit.
- (rare) One who listens, typically as a member of an audience.
- Sir Thomas Browne
- There is another of better notice, and whispered through the world with some attention; credulous and vulgar auditors readily believing it, and more judicious and distinctive heads not altogether rejecting it.
- Sir Thomas Browne
- (Scientology) One trained to perform spiritual guidance procedures.
Translations
one who audits bookkeeping accounts
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Latin
Etymology
From audiō (“hear, listen”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /au̯ˈdiː.tor/, [au̯ˈdiː.tɔr]
Noun
audītor m (genitive audītōris); third declension
- A hearer.
- An auditor
- A pupil, disciple; a person who listens to teachings.
- (by metonymy) A reader of a book. (Books were read aloud.)
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | audītor | audītōrēs |
| genitive | audītōris | audītōrum |
| dative | audītōrī | audītōribus |
| accusative | audītōrem | audītōrēs |
| ablative | audītōre | audītōribus |
| vocative | audītor | audītōrēs |
Synonyms
- (pupil, disciple): discipulus
Related terms
Descendants
Verb
audītor
- second-person singular future passive imperative of audiō
- third-person singular future passive imperative of audiō
References
- auditor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- auditor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- AUDITOR in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “auditor”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to attend Plato's lectures: audire Platonem, auditorem esse Platonis
- to attend Plato's lectures: audire Platonem, auditorem esse Platonis
- auditor in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016