-tor

Etymology
From, , and feminine , from , , both from. Ultimately from, from <.

Suffix
(plural -tori, feminine -toari/-toare)



Suffix

 * 1) [verb]s bit by bit, continuously

Etymology
From, from <.

The ō from the nominative case was made common to all cases. Afterwards nom.sg. -tōr > -tor, by Latin sound laws. Paradoxically, as in other r-stems, in the resulting paradigm the one form with a short stem vowel is the only form whose stem was etymologically long.

Cognate to.

Cognate to 🇨🇬, as in, and , as in , from a separate ablaut.

Compare 🇨🇬, from Proto-Indo-European.

Suffix

 * 1) -er;

Usage notes
The suffix -tor is added to the fourth principal part of a verb to create a third-declension masculine form of an agent noun.
 * Examples:
 * ; masculine counterpart of, from
 * ; masculine counterpart of, from
 * , from

The suffix -tor occasionally is added to a noun to create an agent noun, often in the extended form, as if from a first-conjugation verb.
 * Examples:
 * , from
 * , from

Etymology 1
(through a form, and feminine  from ). With some neologisms based on -teur. Ultimately from, from <.

Suffix

 * 1) -er

Etymology 2
.

Suffix

 * 1) -ing