autor
/auˈtoɾ/ · B1 · noun · m
writer
✍️📖 autor = author, from Latin auctor: one who makes something grow or exist
Same root as authority: the auctor is the originator. That is why Spanish uses autor for whoever started an act, the writer of a book or the perpetrator of a crime (el autor del robo). Stress falls on the last syllable: au-TOR.