deductor

From deduct +‎ -or under influence from Latin dēductor.

deductor (plural deductors)

1. One who deducts something, particularly one who deducts tax from wages or deducts certain expenditures from payment of tax.

• deductee

From Latin dēductor (“guide; founder”). See deduce.

deductor (plural deductors)

1. (historical) The formal patron of a Roman colony.
2. Synonym of pilot whale.

• “deductor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From dēdūcō (“to lead out or down; to accompany; to found”) +‎ -tor (“-er: forming agent nouns”). Equivalent to dē- +‎ ductor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deːˈdʊk.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪eˈd̪uk.t̪or]

dēductor m (genitive dēductōris); third declension

1. (historical) deductor, the formal patron of a Roman colony
2. guide
3. teacher
4. attendant, escort, particularly (politics) one assisting a candidate

Third-declension noun.

• dēdūcō

• English: deductor

• “deductor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• deductor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.