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What (who) is -or - definition

NOUN THAT REPRESENTS THE AGENT OF SOME ACTION; E.G. "DRIVER", "GIVER"

Agentive suffix; Nomen agentis; -or; Agent suffix; Agentive ending; Agent nouns; Agentive prefix

-or

-or¹

¦ suffix (forming nouns) denoting a person or thing performing the action of a verb, or denoting another agent: escalator.

Origin

from L., sometimes via Anglo-Norman Fr. -eour or OFr. -eor (see also -ator).

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-or²

¦ suffix forming nouns denoting a state or condition: terror.

Origin

from L., sometimes via OFr. -or, -ur.

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-or³

¦ suffix forming adjectives expressing a comparative sense: junior.

Origin

via Anglo-Norman Fr. from L.

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-or⁴

¦ suffix US form of -our¹.

-or

-or is used at the end of nouns that refer to people or things which perform a particular action.

...a major investor.

...the translator.

...an electric generator.

SUFFIX

-or

·- A noun suffix denoting an act; a state or quality; as in error, fervor, pallor, candor, ·etc.

II. -or ·- 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.

Wikipedia

Agent noun

In linguistics, an agent noun (in Latin, nomen agentis) is a word that is derived from another word denoting an action, and that identifies an entity that does that action. For example, driver is an agent noun formed from the verb drive.

Usually, derived in the above definition has the strict sense attached to it in morphology, that is the derivation takes as an input a lexeme (an abstract unit of morphological analysis) and produces a new lexeme. However, the classification of morphemes into derivational morphemes (see word formation) and inflectional ones is not generally a straightforward theoretical question, and different authors can make different decisions as to the general theoretical principles of the classification as well as to the actual classification of morphemes presented in a grammar of some language (for example, of the agent noun-forming morpheme).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent noun

Examples of use of -or

1. "He knows nothing about cyanide or suicide belts or jackets or explosives or bombs or firearms.

2. The search string included: "iran contra or clinton or spotted owl or florida recount or sex! . . . or indict! or enron or kerry or iraq or wmd!. . . . or gay! or homosexual! or gun!" But the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on that topic yesterday morning was lightly attended.

3. "Whether you are black or white, male or female, rich or poor, gay or straight, sick or healthy, young or old.

4. "We don‘t have, in Chicago or Detroit or Pittsburgh, Uzbeks or Tajiks or Kazakhs," Rumsfeld said.

5. Choose between soda sweetened with high–fructose corn syrup or cane sugar, flavored artificially or naturally, colored pink or red or green or blue or purple.