Etymograph

English

fictioner

From fiction + -er.

Formed from fiction + -er

Latin fingō ‘to form, devise, feign’

Latin fictiō ‘a making; a feigning’

Old French ficcion ‘dissimulation, invention’

Middle English ficcioun ‘invention, fabrication’

English fiction

Today it means

noun A writer of fiction.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / fictioner