-tor

¹ American  

1. a suffix found in loanwords from Latin, forming personal agent nouns from verbs and, less commonly, from nouns.

   dictator; genitor; janitor; orator; victor.

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tor ² American  

[tawr] / tɔr /

noun

1. a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.

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tor British  

/ tɔː /

noun

1. a high hill, esp a bare rocky one

2. a prominent rock or heap of rocks, esp on a hill

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Etymology

Origin of -tor¹

< Latin -tor (stem -tōr- ), cognate with Greek -tōr (stem -tor- ), Sanskrit -tar-

Origin of tor¹

before 900; Middle English; Old English torr < Celtic; compare Irish tor rocky height, Welsh twr heap, pile

Example Sentences

"You have rare earths in your pocket when you carry a smartphone," said Tor Espen Simonsen, a local official at Rare Earths Norway, the company that owns the extraction rights.

From Barron's

Days later, on a remote patch of land in South Sudan, a 38-year-old man named Tor Top gathered with his neighbors outside the local health clinic.

From Salon

Tor Top’s mother, Nyarietna, was one of the uncounted.

From Salon

That’s when World Relief finally began to receive funding, allowing the clinic in Tor Top’s community to reopen, even though the administration claimed the program had been “active” for almost seven months.

From Salon

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London's School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences have demonstrated that the experimental TOR inhibitor rapalink-1 can extend the chronological lifespan of fission yeast, a simple organism widely used to explore basic biological processes.

From Science Daily

Related Words

• alp
• bluff
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• elevation
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• mount
• palisade
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• precipice
• range
• ridge
• sierra
• volcano