typesetter

English

Various pieces of moveable type.

Etymology

type +‎ setter

Noun

typesetter (plural typesetters)

(historical) A person who sets type; an employee in a printshop who manually selected pieces of movable type and assembled them for printing.
(historical) A machine that combines type in the correct order for printing.

Synonyms

(person who sets type): compositor

Translations

a typesetter

Bulgarian: словослагател m (slovoslagatel)
Czech: sazeč (cs) m
Finnish: latoja (fi)
French: typographe (fr) m or f, typote (fr) f, typo (fr) m, compositeur-typographe (fr) m
German: Schriftsetzer m, Schriftsetzerin f
Greek: στοιχειοθέτης (el) m (stoicheiothétis), τυπογράφος (el) m or f (typográfos)
Hungarian: betűszedő (hu), szedő (hu)
Irish: clóchuradóir m, cló-eagraí m
Malay: pengatur huruf
Maori: kaiwhakanoho reta

Polish: zecer (pl) m
Portuguese: compositor (pt) m, tipógrafo (pt) m
Romanian: culegător (ro) m, zețar (ro) m, tipograf (ro) m
Russian: набо́рщик (ru) m (nabórščik), печа́тник (ru) m (pečátnik), типо́граф (ru) m (tipógraf)
Scottish Gaelic: clòdhadair m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: словослагач m

Roman: slovoslagač m
Spanish: cajista m or f
Swedish: handsättare (sv), sättare c, typograf (sv) c

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