-OR


Meaning of -OR in English

A noun suffix denoting an agent or doer; as in auditor, one who hears; donor, one who gives; obligor, elevator. It is correlative to -ee. In general -or is appended to words of Latin, and -er to those of English, origin. See -er.

Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary.      Пересмотренный полный словарь английского языка Webster.