The story
- Old French · derived fromtortfesor
- Anglo-Norman · derived fromtortfeasor
- English todaytortfeasor
From Anglo-Norman tortfeasor, from Old French tortfesor, tort-faiseur, torfesor, torzfesor (“wrongdoer”), from tort (“a misdeed, a wrong”) + fesor, faiseur (“doer”).
Words from the same roots
Anglo-Normantortfeasor all →
tortfeasee
Old Frenchtortfesor all →
tortfeasee
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.