ator

See also: -ator, -atör, -átor, and -ător

Old English

Alternative forms

• āttor, ǣtor, ǣttor

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *aitr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.tor/

Noun

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.

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	ātor	ātru
accusative	ātor	ātru
genitive	ātres	ātra
dative	ātre	ātrum

Synonyms

• lybb
• unlybba

Derived terms

• ǣtren
• ǣtrian
• ǣtriġ
• ātorbǣre
• ātorberende
• ātorcoppe
• ātorcræft
• ātorcynn
• ātordrinc
• ātordrinca
• ātorġeblǣd
• ātorlāðe
• ātorlīċ
• ātorloppe
• ātornes
• ātorsċeaþa
• ātorspere

Descendants

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

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• actor (pre-1990 spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese abtor, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin actor, from āctus + -tor.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈtoʁ/ [aˈtoh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈtoʁ/ [aˈtoh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /aˈtoɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /aˈtoʁ/ [aˈtoχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈtoɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /aˈtoɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /aˈtoɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /aˈto.ɾi/

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

Noun

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

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

Further reading

• “ator”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “ator”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Venetan

Etymology

From Latin āctōrem (“doer”, “actor”).

Noun

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

1. actor