Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

agistor

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ag-is-tor
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer.

noun

an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.

Etymology

Etymology tree English agist Old French -eorbor. Middle English -our Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -torlbor. English -or English agistor From agist + -or.

Inflected Forms

agistors (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

agistment

Questions

What does agistor mean?: One who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer.
Where does agistor come from?: Etymology tree English agist Old French -eorbor. Middle English -our Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -torlbor. English -or English agistor From agist + -or.

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