-ator
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin -ātor or -ate + -or.
SuffixEdit
-ator
- used to form agent nouns, usually from verbs that have the ending -ate
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “-ator”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
AnagramsEdit
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
SuffixEdit
-ator
- used to form agent nouns, usually from verbs that have the ending -eren
Derived termsEdit
LatinEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
By rebracketing of words formed from first conjugation verbs, such as cūrātor (cūrāre + -tor), where -ā- is part of the stem.
SuffixEdit
-ātor
- Enlarged form of -tor, used to form agent nouns; -ator, -er
DescendantsEdit
See alsoEdit
Etymology 2Edit
SuffixEdit
-ātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of -ō (first conjugation)
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin -ātor (“-ator, -er”), a form of -tor (“-er”), from Proto-Italic *-tōr, from Proto-Indo-European *-tōr < *-tor-s.
SuffixEdit
-ator m
- used to form nouns
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
SuffixEdit
-ator m
- used to form nouns
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “-ator” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
SuffixEdit
-ator m pers
- Forms masculine agentitive nouns, usually professions
- adiustacja + -ator → adiustator
DeclensionEdit
Declension of -ator
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- -ator in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- -ator in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-CroatianEdit
SuffixEdit
-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.