The story
- Latin · borrowed fromdissimulātor
- English todaydissimulator
From Latin dissimulātor, from dissimulāre (“to conceal, to pretend, to neglect”) + -tor (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from dissimilis (“unlike”) + -āre (“forming verbs”). Equivalent to dissimulate + -or.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.