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English
Etymology 1
From deduct + -or under influence from Latin dēductor.
Noun
deductor (plural deductors)
- One who deducts something, particularly one who deducts tax from wages or deducts certain expenditures from payment of tax.
Etymology 2
From Latin dēductor (“guide; founder”). See deduce.
Noun
deductor (plural deductors)
- (historical) The formal patron of a Roman colony.
- Synonym of pilot whale.
References
Latin
Etymology
From dēdūcō (“to lead out or down; to accompany; to found”) + -tor (“-er: forming agent nouns”). Equivalent to dē- + ductor.
Pronunciation
Noun
dēductor m (genitive dēductōris); third declension
- (historical) deductor, the formal patron of a Roman colony
- guide
- teacher
- attendant, escort, particularly (politics) one assisting a candidate
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “deductor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- deductor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.