-ator
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin -ātor or -ate + -or.
Suffix edit
-ator
- used to form agent nouns, usually from verbs that have the ending -ate
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “-ator”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Suffix edit
-ator
- used to form agent nouns, usually from verbs that have the ending -eren
Derived terms edit
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈaː.tor/, [ˈäːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.tor/, [ˈäːt̪or]
Etymology 1 edit
By rebracketing of words formed from first conjugation verbs, such as cūrātor (cūrāre + -tor), where -ā- is part of the stem.
Suffix edit
-ātor
- Enlarged form of -tor, used to form agent nouns; -ator, -er
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | -ātor | -ātōrēs |
Genitive | -ātōris | -ātōrum |
Dative | -ātōrī | -ātōribus |
Accusative | -ātōrem | -ātōrēs |
Ablative | -ātōre | -ātōribus |
Vocative | -ātor | -ātōrēs |
Descendants edit
See also edit
Etymology 2 edit
Suffix edit
-ātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of -ō (first conjugation)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Latin -ātor (“-ator, -er”), a form of -tor (“-er”), from Proto-Italic *-tōr, from Proto-Indo-European *-tōr < *-tor-s.
Suffix edit
-ator m
- used to form nouns
Derived terms edit
References edit
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
Suffix edit
-ator m
- used to form nouns
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “-ator” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Suffix edit
-ator m pers
- forms masculine agentitive nouns, usually professions
- adiustacja + -ator → adiustator
Declension edit
Declension of -ator
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- -ator in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-Croatian edit
Suffix edit
-ator (Cyrillic spelling -атор)
- Suffix appended to words to create a masculine noun, usually denoting a profession or a performer, used chiefly for words of Latin origin.