creatur

See also: créatúr

English

Noun

creatur (plural creaturs)

1. Pronunciation spelling of creature.
   • 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “The Morning of the Trial”, in Adam Bede […], volume III, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book fifth, page 118:

     Frightened, very frightened, when they first brought her in; it was the first sight of the crowd and the judge, poor creatur.

   • 1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter VIII, in Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, part I, page 123:

     But it was observed with some irritation in the village, that anybody but a "blind creatur" like Marner would have seen the man prowling about, for how came he to leave his tinder-box in the ditch close by, if he hadn't been lingering there?

   • 1898, Paul Laurence Dunbar, chapter VIII, in The Uncalled: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 101:

     I 'm mighty sorry to hear about the poor old creatur; but she 'd served you a long while.

Anagrams

• traceur

Latin

Verb

creātur

1. third-person singular present passive indicative of creō

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

creatur

1. alternative form of creature

Etymology 2

Noun

creatur

1. alternative form of creatour

Old French

Alternative forms

• createres (nominative singular)
• createur
• creator
• creatour
• creatres (nominative singular)
• creautour
• criator
• criatour

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin creātor.

Noun

creatur oblique singular, m (oblique plural creaturs, nominative singular creaturs, nominative plural creatur)

1. creator (one who creates)
   • 1958, The French Text of the Ancrene Riwle (based on the Cambridge manuscript, circa 1300)

     Kar quele compareison est entre le creatour e sa creature?

     For what comparison is there between the creator and his creature?

Usage notes

• Almost always refers to the Christian idea of God or Jesus Christ

Descendants

• Middle French: createur
  • French: créateur

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (creator, supplement)
• creatur on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub