Other forms: sorcerers
A sorcerer is somebody who works magic, especially through spirits. A powerful sorcerer, the sorcerer's apprentice, a dark sorcerer.
In stories a sorcerer is usually male, usually dangerous, and works by summoning powers rather than by study — which is the usual line drawn against a wizard, though no two authors agree. Sorceress is the feminine form. The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a ballad, an orchestral piece and a cartoon, and its plot — starting magic you cannot stop — has become a standard metaphor.
1nounsorcererSomebody who works magic, especially through spirits.
“In the fairy tale, an evil sorcerer turns the princess into a swan.”
sorcerer is a worker of magic.
Old French sorcier comes from Latin sors, a lot or fate, so a sorcerer was originally somebody who cast lots to tell fortunes. Sort and consortium come from the same word.
Proto-Indo-European
*ser- (bind)
Middle English
sorcerere
English, today
sorcerer
From Middle English sorcerere. From Middle English sorcerere, from stem sorcer- (as in sorceresse and sorcery) + -ere, from Old French sorcer,sorcier, from la-eme sortiārius, derived from Latin sors (“fate, fortune”), from Proto-Indo-European ser- (“to bind”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA