Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗suffix
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryUsed to form agent nouns, usually from verbs that have the ending -ate.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin -ātorbor. Old French -atorbor. ▲ Latin -ātorbor. Middle English -atour English -ator Inherited from Middle English -atour, from Old French -ator and its etymon Latin -ātor, -ātōrem; reinforced by -ate + -or.
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