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Origin and history of editor

editor(n.)

1640s, "publisher," from Latin editor "one who puts forth," agent noun from editus, past participle of edere "to bring forth, produce" (see edition). By 1712 in sense of "person who prepares written matter for publication;" specific sense in newspapers is from 1803.

editor

also from 1640s

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edition(n.)

early 15c., "version, translation, a form of a literary work;" 1550s, "act of publishing," from French édition or directly from Latin editionem (nominative editio) "a bringing forth, producing," also "a statement, account," from past-participle stem of edere "bring forth, produce," from ex "out" (see ex-) + -dere, combining form of dare "to give" (from PIE root *do- "to give"). "It is awkward to speak of, e.g. 'The second edition of Campbell's edition of Plato's "Theætetus"'; but existing usage affords no satisfactory substitute for this inconvenient mode of expression" [OED].

edit(v.)

1791, "to publish," perhaps a back-formation from editor, or from French éditer (itself a back-formation from édition) or from Latin editus, past participle of edere "give out, put out, publish" (see edition). Meaning "to supervise for publication" is from 1793. Meaning "make revisions to a manuscript, etc.," is from 1885. Related: Edited; editing. As a noun, by 1960, "an act of editing."

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seems to be entirely traceable to Dashiell Hammett, who sneaked it into "The Maltese Falcon" (1929) while warring with his editor...The context implies some connection with gun and a sense of "gunman," and evidently that is what the editor believed it to...mention of sexual perversion would have been deleted if the censors hadn't made the same mistaken assumption as Hammett's editor...
bowdlerize
"expurgate by eliminating indelicate or offensive passages," 1836, from the name of Thomas Bowdler, English editor who in...
verbarian
sense, in wishing for: "a verbarian Attorney-General, authorised to bring informations ex officio against the writer or editor...
gonzo
Thompson in 1972 said he got it from editor Bill Cardosa and explained it as "some Boston word for weird, bizarre."...
Balkanize
and mutually hostile groups," as was the political condition of the Balkans; it is said to have been coined by English editor...
tabloid
Harmsworth, editor and proprietor of the London Daily Mail. Mr....Current news was presented in condensed and tabulated form, of which the editor says: "The world enters today upon the twentieth...
ghost
appears in print over the signature of such second party" ["The Ghost Writer and His Story" [Graves Glenwood Clark, in "The Editor...
redact
late 14c., redacten, "combine in a unity;" c. 1400, "compile, arrange" (laws, codes, etc.); early 15c., "bring into organized form;" from Latin redactus, past participle of redigere "to drive back, force back; bring back; collect, call in; bring down, reduce to a certain state,"
application
early 15c., "the bringing of something to bear on something else," from Old French aplicacion (14c.), from Latin applicationem (nominative applicatio) "a joining to, an attaching oneself to; relation of a client to a patron," noun of action from past-participle stem of applicare
program
1630s, "public notice," from Late Latin programma "proclamation, edict," from Greek programma "a written public notice," from stem of prographein "to write publicly," from pro "forth" (see pro-) + graphein "to write" (see -graphy).  The meaning "written or printed list of pi

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