authoress

English

Alternative forms

• authouress (archaic)
• authress (rare)

Etymology

From Middle English aucteuresse; equivalent to author +‎ -ess.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.θə.ɹɛs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.θɚ.ɹɛs/

Noun

authoress (plural authoresses)

1. (dated) A female author.
   • 1765 January, “A further Account of the celebrated German Poeteſs”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, page 5:

     This obſervation is verified in our authoreſs, who, without deſign, without art, and without inſtruction is arrived at a wonderful perfection in the art of poetry, and may be placed amongſt poets of the firſt claſs.

   • 1841, Thomas Butler, The Truths of the Catholic Religion, page 102:

     Eve was the authoress of sin, Mary the authoress of merit… the one wounded, the other healed.

Synonyms

• authrix (rare)

Translations

female author

• Arabic: مُؤَلِّفَة f (muʔallifa), مُصَنِّفَة (muṣannifa)
• Bulgarian: а́вторка f (ávtorka), писа́телка f (pisátelka)
• Catalan: autora (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 女作家 (nǚ zuòjiā)

• Czech: autorka (cs) f
• Danish: forfatterinde (da) c
• Dutch: schrijfster (nl) f, autrice (nl) f
• Esperanto: aŭtorino
• Finnish: kirjailijatar
• French: autrice (fr) f, écrivaine (fr) f
• Georgian: ავტორი (avṭori)
• German: Autorin (de) f
• Greek: συγγραφέας (el) m (syngraféas)
• Hungarian: írónő (hu), szerzőnő
• Irish: banúdar m
• Italian: autrice (it) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forfatterinne (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: forfattarinne f

• Polish: autorka (pl) f, pisarka (pl) f
• Portuguese: autora f
• Romanian: autoare (ro) f
• Russian: писа́тельница (ru) f (pisátelʹnica)
• Serbo-Croatian: autorica (sh) f, književnica (sh) f
• Spanish: autora (es) f
• Swedish: författarinna (sv) c
• Ukrainian: а́вторка (uk) f (ávtorka), письме́нниця f (pysʹménnycja)
• Welsh: awdures (cy) f

References

• “authoress”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “authoress”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “authoress”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• art houses, arthouses, house rats, shareouts