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-or

suffix
/ə/UK/ɚ/CA/ə/

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from -ātor
  2. derived from -eor
  3. inherited from -our

Definitions

  1. Creates an agent noun, often from a verb, indicating a person or object (often machines…

    Creates 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.

    • settle + -or → settlor
    • survive + -or → survivor

  2. Appended to the names of members of classes of components, especially those that have an…

    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

    • Resistors possess resistance and inductors possess inductance.

  3. Used to form nouns of quality, state, or condition.

    • err + -or → error

The neighborhood

Derived

actor, assignor, author, bailor, debtor, donor, licensor, realtor, sculptor, settlor, sublicensor, trustor

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -or. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA