-ator

Borrowed from Latin -ātor or -ate +‎ -or.

-ator

1. Used to form agent nouns, usually from verbs that have the ending -ate.

• -atory

• “-ator”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.

• aort-, oart, RATO, Taro, Roat, Rato, rato, rota, Rota, Orta, taro

• -tor
• -itor
• -sor
• -ssor

Borrowed from Latin -ātor (“-ator, -er”), a form of -tor (“-er”), from Proto-Italic *-tōr, from Proto-Indo-European *-tōr < *-tor-s.

-ator c

1. used to form agent nouns

   Coordinate term: -er

• “-ator” in Den Danske Ordbog

Derived from Latin -ātor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː.tɔr/

• Audio:

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-ator

1. used to form agent nouns, usually from verbs that have the ending -eren

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key):
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key):

By rebracketing of words formed from first conjugation verbs, such as cūrātor (cūrāre + -tor), where -ā- is part of the stem.

-ātor

1. Enlarged form of -tor, used to form agent nouns; -ator, -er

   ‎gladius (“sword”) + ‎-ātor → ‎gladiātor (“gladiator”)

   ‎malleus (“hammer”) + ‎-ātor → ‎malleātor (“hammerer”)

Third-declension noun.

• → Old Irish: -atóir
  • Irish: -adóir
• → Norwegian: -ator

• -or
• -tor (-sor)

-ātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of -ō (first conjugation)

Borrowed from Latin -ātor (“-ator, -er”), a form of -tor (“-er”), from Proto-Italic *-tōr, from Proto-Indo-European *-tōr < *-tor-s.

-ator m

1. used to form nouns

• “-ator” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “-ator” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Derived from Latin -ātor (“-ator, -er”).

-ator m

1. used to form nouns

• “-ator” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Learned borrowing from Latin -ātor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.tɔr/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -atɔr
• Syllabification:

-ator m pers

1. forms masculine agentitive nouns, usually professions

   ‎adiustacja + ‎-ator → ‎adiustator

• -ator in Polish dictionaries at PWN

-ator (Cyrillic spelling -атор)

1. Suffix appended to words to create a masculine noun, usually denoting a profession or a performer, used chiefly for words of Latin origin.

• -or