From Latin 'editor' (one who gives out) — 'e-' + 'dare' (to give). An editor is one who puts a work forth into the world.
A person who is in charge of and determines the final content of a text, newspaper, magazine, or broadcast; a person who prepares material for publication by correcting, condensing, or otherwise modifying it.
From Latin editor (one who gives out, a publisher, a producer of games or spectacles), agent noun from ēditus, past participle of ēdere (to give out, put forth, publish), composed of ē-/ex- (out) + dare (to give), from PIE *deh₃- (to give). In classical Latin, an editor was primarily a publisher — one who 'gives out' a text to the world — or a magistrate who 'put on' public games. The modern sense of someone who corrects, revises, and curates
The verb 'edit' is a back-formation from 'editor' — not the other way around. Latin had 'ēdere' (to give out) and 'editor' (one who gives out), but English borrowed 'editor' in the seventeenth century and then created the verb 'edit' by removing the '-or' suffix. Like 'donate' from 'donation,' the verb was reverse