Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗suffix
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryCreates an agent noun, often from a verb, indicating a person or object (often machines or parts of them) that do the verb or part of speech with which they are formed. · Appended to the names of members of classes of components, especially those that have an extensive property name of the same root suffixed with -ance
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin -ātor Old French -eorbor. Middle English -our ▲ Latin -torlbor. English -or From Middle English -our, from Old French -eor, from Latin -ātor; reinforced by Old French -or and its source, Latin -tor, -tōrem.
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