-ator

Borrowed from Latin -ātor.

-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.

• RATO, Rato, Roat, Rota, Taro, rato, rota, taro

From Latin -ātor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː.tɔr/

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-ator

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈaː.tor/, [ˈaː.tɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.tor/, [ˈaː.tor]

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 + ‎-ator → ‎gladiātor

   ‎malleus + ‎-ator → ‎malleātor

-ātor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of -ō
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of -ō

From Latin -ator

-ator m

1. used to form nouns

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

From Latin -ator

-ator m

1. used to form nouns

• “-ator” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

-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