-ator
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English
Etymology
Suffix
-ator
- used to form agent nouns, usually from verbs that have the ending -ate
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “-ator”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
Anagrams
Danish
Alternative Forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin -ātor (“-ator, -er”), a form of -tor (“-er”), from Proto-Italic *-tōr, from Proto-Indo-European *-tōr < *-tor-s.
Suffix
-ator c
- used to form agent nouns
- Coordinate term: -er
Derived terms
References
- “-ator” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ator
- used to form agent nouns, usually from verbs that have the ending -eren
Derived terms
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈaː.tor/, [ˈäːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.tor/, [ˈäːt̪or]
Etymology 1
By rebracketing of words formed from first conjugation verbs, such as cūrātor (cūrāre + -tor), where -ā- is part of the stem.
Suffix
-ātor
- Enlarged form of -tor, used to form agent nouns; -ator, -er
Declension
Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | -ātor | -ātōrēs |
genitive | -ātōris | -ātōrum |
dative | -ātōrī | -ātōribus |
accusative | -ātōrem | -ātōrēs |
ablative | -ātōre | -ātōribus |
vocative | -ātor | -ātōrēs |
Descendants
See also
Etymology 2
Suffix
-ātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of -ō (first conjugation)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin -ātor (“-ator, -er”), a form of -tor (“-er”), from Proto-Italic *-tōr, from Proto-Indo-European *-tōr < *-tor-s.
Suffix
-ator m
- used to form nouns
Derived terms
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Suffix
-ator m
- used to form nouns
Derived terms
References
- “-ator” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin -ātor.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ator m pers
- forms masculine agentitive nouns, usually professions
- adiustacja + -ator → adiustator
Declension
Declension of -ator
Derived terms
Further reading
- -ator in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-Croatian
Suffix
-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.
See also
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