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means A person who devises or creates a new thing, process, or method that didn't exist before.

from From Latin 'inventor,' agent noun of 'invenire' — 'to come upon, discover, find' — itself built from 'in-' (upon) plus 'venire' (to come). The original sense was closer to 'finder' than 'maker': the Romans used it for someone who stumbled onto something, not necessarily someone who engineered it from scratch. English borrowed the word in that spirit, and only gradually, as the modern idea of deliberate technical creation took hold, did 'inventor' shift from 'one who finds' to 'one who makes something new.'