Narrator
/ˈnær.eɪ.tər/noun
A person who tells or provides the spoken or written account of a story or event.
Did you know?Its Latin ancestor, *narrare*, is tied to *gnarus* (“knowing”), so a narrator was originally less a storyteller than a knower who makes events publicly known.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*ǵneh₃-
“to know, recognize”
Latin
Latin
gnārus
“knowing, aware”
Latin
Latin
narrare
“to tell, relate, recount”
Old French
Old French
narrateur
“one who tells or recounts”
Middle English
English
narratour
“a teller of a story or account”
Modern English
English
narrator
“a person who narrates a story or event”