agent noun

For example, "driver" is an agent noun formed from the verb "drive".

Words ending with the following suffixes, which mostly form agent nouns, are masculine:

The word tractor was taken from Latin, being the agent noun of trahere "to pull".

Every verb has a corresponding agent noun.

Thus the verb was derived from the agent noun rather than the other way around, and represents a good example of back-formation."

What is the agent noun?

The term "lasing" is a back formation from "laser," which is an acronym, not an agent noun.

Transitive clause with agent noun phrase:

Some agent nouns -- writer, actress, firefighter, activist - raise no eyebrows, but contraceptor is new.

"Agent noun" is also used as the name of the derivational meaning (also called a derivateme).

The agent noun suffix *-ārijaz (Modern English -er) was likely borrowed from Latin around or shortly after this time.

Most theonyms formed from verbs are active or agent nouns, indicating that the deity was thought to enable or perform the action.

-er, a suffix added to a verb to make it an agent noun (e.g. cut to cutter)

In modern Dutch, this change has become grammaticalised for the -er (comparative, agent noun) suffix when attached to a word ending in -r.

(Cf. agent noun.)

The endings "-er", "-or", and "-ist" are commonly used in English to form agent nouns.

Benefactive, Thematic and Instrumental require the presence of two theta roles: the agent noun phrase and the focused noun phrase.

The word "cestus" is Latin, an agent noun derived from verb caedere, meaning "to strike", and as such can be reasonably translated as "striker".

Radke and Ancellotti e Cerri interpret the -t- form as a kind of active participle or agent noun and this would be the only possibility.

Agent nouns (e.g. photographer from photograph in English) are constructed by taking the infinitive, removing the ending and replacing it by -er, -ler or -er(er).

This agent noun would therefore mean 'furrow-maker, incisor' and may have had a metaphorical sense of 'impresser.' 'South Carolina' () is a U.S. state.

Those of us in the language dodge were startled - and some troubled - by the implantation of a new agent noun , one of those words that describe a person performing an action.

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.

There are also many other nouns and adjectives derived from particular verbs, such as competition and competitive from the verb compete (as well as other types such as agent nouns).

According to Carl Darling Buck (Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin), the -eus suffix is typically used to form an agent noun, in this case from the aorist stem, pers-.