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-tore

-tore

See also: tore, töre, and Tore

Italian

Alternative forms

Suffix

-tore ‎(feminine -trice)

  1. Forming masculine nouns and adjectives from verbs with the sense of ‘person or thing connected or involved with, belonging to, having’, compare English -er and -or
    comprare ‎(“to buy”) → compratore ‎(“buyer”)

Derived terms

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Italian_words_suffixed_with_-tore'>Italian words suffixed with -tore</a>

See also

  • -sore (used with verbs ending in -dere)

Latin

Suffix

-tōre

  1. ablative singular of -tor

Etymology

From Latin -tōrem, the accusative singular of -tor, from Proto-Italic *-tōr, from Proto-Indo-European *-tōr < *-tor-s. Cognate to French -eur, -teur, Spanish -dor.

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