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- French · derived frommainteneur
- Old French · derived frommainteneor
- English todaymaintainor
Old French mainteneor, French mainteneur.
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchmainteneor all →
maintainer
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
maintainor
Today it means: One who, not being an interested party, maintains a cause depending between others, by furnishing money, etc., to either party. Full definition →
Old French mainteneor ← French mainteneur