inventor, feminine, inventrix (repertor is †, and post-Augustan): auctor (the original introducer, etc., who is therefore looked up to as an authority): architectus or quasi architectus (the original builder, as it were; hence, the inventor of something that may be considered constructive; e.g., beatae vitae, Cic.). (The words are found in this connection and order.) princeps et architectus (Cic.). The inventors of sculpture, fingendi conditores: an inventor of new words, inventor novorum verborum. Vid: DISCOVERER.