Word Origin Summary

-ātor is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• -eor

  French · inherited from

• -ador

  Catalan · inherited from

• -our

  Middle English · derived from

• migraineur

  English · derived from

• -ator

  English · borrowed from

• absorbator

  Norwegian Bokmål · borrowed from

• pelakor

  Indonesian · derived from

• -ator

  Norwegian Bokmål · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root