-or

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (morpheme) Creates an agent noun, often from a verb, indicating a person or object (often machines or parts of them) that do the verb or part of speech with which they are formed.
2. (morpheme) Appended to the names of members of classes of components, especially those that have an extensive property name of the same root suffixed with -ance

Sinonieme

or

Vertalings

-eur

-or

-iste

-ore

-aar

-er

-er

-ist

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ə/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: -our

Verwante met Old French: -or

Verwante met Latyn: -tor

In summary

From Middle English -our, from Old French -eor, from Latin -ātor; reinforced by Old French -or and its source, Latin -tor, -tōrem.