-er used to form a masculine agent noun.tor m ( genitive -tōris) third declension ( Ecclesiastical ) IPA ( key): /tor/,.)).Ĭognate to Ancient Greek -τωρ ( -tōr ), as in δώτωρ ( dṓtōr ), and -τήρ ( -tḗr ), as in δοτήρ ( dotḗr ), from a separate ablaut *-tḗr ( agentive suffix ).Ĭompare Latin -trum ( instrumental suffix ), from Proto-Indo-European *-tr-o-m ( instrumental suffix ). Paradoxically, as in other r-stems ( soror, -or), in the resulting paradigm the one form with a short stem vowel is the only form whose stem was etymologically long.
Ultimately from Proto-Italic *-tōr, from Proto-Indo-European *-tōr -tor, by Latin sound laws. Aromanian Alternative forms įrom Vulgar Latin -torius, -torium, and feminine -toari, toare from Vulgar Latin -toria, -toriam, both from Latin -tor.
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