ator

• āttor, ǣtor, ǣttor

From Proto-West Germanic *aitr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.tor/

ātor n (nominative plural ātru)

1. poison, venom
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Maur, Abbot"

     Marus ġemētte ænne man eft sē wæs yfele ġetawod and hine ǣt se cancor and his weleres wǣron āwlǣtte mid ealle and ēac his nosu fornumen mid āttre...

     Again Maurus found a man who was evilly stricken, and a cancer was eating him, and his lips were rendered loathsome thereby, and likewise his nose destroyed by the poison;...

   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Đā ongunnon ealle ðā nǣddran tō ċēowenne heora flæsċ and heora blōd sucan, þæt hī þæt āttor ūt ātugon

     Then all the snakes began to chew their flesh and suck their blood in order to draw out the venom.

Strong a-stem:

• lybb
• unlybba

• Middle English: atter, attere, attir, attre, atture, attyr, attyre, atterr (Ormulum)
  • English: atter
  • Scots: atter, etter

• actor (pre-1990 spelling)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese abtor, borrowed from Latin actor, from āctus + -tor.

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
• Hyphenation: a‧tor

ator m (plural atores, feminine atriz, feminine plural atrizes)

1. actor (a person who performs in a theatrical play or movie)

From Latin āctōrem (“doer”, “actor”).

ator m (plural atori or aturi, female equivalent atrice)

1. actor