Where does “-tor” come from?

-tor (Aromanian) comes from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

-tor (Aromanian): -er

Definitions

  1. -er

Ancestry of “-tor”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
2Latin-tōriusory
3Latin-tor-er
4Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
5Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
6Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

Words derived from “-tor”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -torium →Every word from Latin -tor →