Etymology

-end

Today it means: Forming nouns denoting patients or recipients of actions. Full definition →

Latin -endus
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  1. Latin · learned borrowing from-endus
  2. English today-end

Learned borrowing from Latin -endus, a gerundive ending, related to -andus.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.