-or
suffixEtymology From Latin -or.
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Morpheme Used to form nouns of quality, state, or condition.
- err + -or → error
-or
suffixUK /ə/ · CA, US /ɚ/
Etymology From Middle English -our, from Old French -eor, from Latin -ātor; reinforced by Old French -or and its source, Latin -tor, -tōrem.
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Morpheme Creates an agent noun, often from a verb, indicating a person or object (often machines or parts of them) that do the verb or part of speech with which they are formed.
- settle + -or → settlor
- survive + -or → survivor
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Business, Electrical, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Energy, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics, Science, Sciences Morpheme Appended to the names of members of classes of components, especially those that have an extensive property name of the same root suffixed with -ance
- Resistors possess resistance and inductors possess inductance.