Category:Latin terms suffixed with -tor

N.B. Nouns ending in -ātor should not be moved to Category:Latin terms suffixed with -ator: save for rare exceptions, the -ā- is part of the stem.

N.B. Nouns using the allomorph -sor are listed here as well.

Latin terms ending with the suffix -tor.

Terms are placed in this category using {{af|la|base|-tor}} or {{affix|la|base|-tor}} (or the more specific and less-preferred equivalents {{suf}} or {{suffix}}), where base is the base lemma from which this term is derived.

The suffixes -tor m and -trix f are used with the supine stems of verbs to form nouns denoting the agent of an action. They are etymologically related to various instrument noun suffixes (including neuter -culum, -crum, -trum, -bulum, -brum and feminine -cula, -tra, -bula, -bra) and to the derived adjective-forming suffix -torius, -a, -um (and its nominalized neuter form -tōrium).

The suffix -trum n, mostly unproductive in classical and Imperial Latin, has gained greater productivity in New Latin as a means of forming neologisms for technological artifacts (often translated from modern languages, e.g. computātrum (“computer”), mōtrum (“motor”), etc.).

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